By Rick Hendricks For most residents of colonial El Paso, the ancient church of Our Lady of Guadalupe regulated their lives. The cornerstone of the mission church dedicated to Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte was laid in December 1659 by the Franciscan friar,…
History of Greeks in Albuquerque, 1900–1952 By Katherine Pomonis The first Greeks started coming to Albuquerque around the late 1890s. This is their story from 1900 through 1952. This 52-year period was the era when the Greeks of Albuquerque established their community and the St. George Greek Orthodox Church. …
10 1814 By William H. Wroth Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888) was the first bishop and archbishop of the Diocese of Santa Fe. He was born in Lempdes in Auvergne, a region in southern France in October 1814, one of eleven children of Jean and Marie Dié Lamy. His parents…
by Estevan Arellano For the early settlers who braved the “Jornada del Muerto,” or Journey of the Dead from Mexico to northern New Mexico in 1598, it was not simply a matter of finding good soil and water to plant in order to survive, it also meant learning to…
Explicase el arbol de Consanguinidad en linea recta En este arbol se hallan tres lineas: La primera es la recta. La segunda es la transversal igual. La tercera es la transversal desigual. En la recta se ponen los ascendientes, y descendientes de Pedro (ó de otra qualquiera persona, cuyo…
11 26 1858 By Corinne P. Sze Katharine Drexel was born shortly before the American Civil War to a deeply religious, Roman Catholic family distinguished by material success, philanthropy, and recurrent tragedy. She was the second of three daughters born to Francis Anthony Drexel, a banker of international renown…
The Final Battle: How the Taos Pueblo Indians Won Back Their Blue Lake Shrine by Diana Rico The 1960s were a time of intense political activism among U.S. minorities. Black Power, La Raza, the American Indian Movement, women’s rights, gay rights, farm workers’ rights, the Free Speech movement —…
by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Although neither fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez nor fray Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante spent much time in New Mexico, they both left historical legacies of importance for understanding the Spanish colony. Both were Franciscan friars, and both were sent to New Mexico…
1578 by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Some of the most detailed documentary information about the Spanish province of New Mexico in the early decades of the 1600s comes from reports written by fray Alonso de Benavides. Fray Alonso was resident as custos, or superior, of the custody…
By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Without the work of fray Marcos de Niza, there may never have been a Coronado expedition. It was evidence provided in his 1539 report that triggered launch of the expedition the following year. Had Marcos\'s report been less glowing in its descriptions…
