Translation by Rick Hendricks I, the minister who serves it, fray Ambrosio Guerra, provide information about this mission, Our Lady of Sorrows of the pueblo of Sandia; it has been two years since holy obedience placed me in it. It was built in the month of October 1787. Noted…
Transcripción de Rick Hendricks Noticio de esta micion Nuestra Señora de los dolores del pueblo de sandia hay dos años que la santa obe- dencia me puso en ella: Habiendose erecto en el mes de hoctubre del año de mil cetecientos ochen- ta y ciete Ministro que…
By Rick Hendricks Ulysses S. Grant once ran for governor of New Mexico. No, not that Ulysses S. Grant! The would-be governor was born Donald R. Waskey to Calvin and Margaret Waskey in Baltimore, Maryland, about 1938. Waskey apparently entered the Air Force and became a nuclear weapons mechanical…
By Rick Hendricks On 3 July 1850, Jean Baptiste Lamy was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Santa Fe. In December Lamy passed through New Orleans on his journey westward to New Mexico. A young Spanish priest named Antonio Severo Borrajo happened to be in New Orleans, and his chance meeting…
1 28 1814 By Samuel Sisneros Padre Ramón Ortiz’s parents were don Antonio Ortiz and doña Teresa Miera, both descendants of prominent Spanish colonial families in New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Mexico City. Padre Ortiz’s paternal ancestor was Nicolas Ortiz the progenitor of the prominent Ortiz family in New Mexico….
1 17 1793 El Padre Martínez nació en Abiquiú el 17 de enero del 1793, en lo que entonces se llamaba provincia de Nuevo Méjico. Sus padres fueron el don Severino Martínez y María del Carmen Santisevan. La vida del presbítero don Antonio José Martínez se extiende a través…
8 28 1842 Archbishop of the diocese of Santa Fe, is a native of France, his birth having occurred at Mende, in the department of Lozere, on the 28th of August, 1842. He descended from a French family of land-owners, which also numbered many members who found entrance into…
Very Rev. James H. Defouri, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Catholic, at Las Vegas, is a native of Savoy, France, born at the villa of La Palud, in the parish of St. Jean de la Porte, on the 29th of August, 1830. At the age…
Upon returning to Spain in 1493 after his first voyage, Christopher Columbus contacted Pope Alexander VI (a Spaniard by birth) to report his discoveries. Acting as the great European arbiter of the day, the pope then issued a bull (decree) that divided the New World lands between Spain and…
By Gregg Gonzales From 1760 to 1859, La Castrense Church (the Military Chapel), stood on the south side of the Santa Fe Plaza across from the Palace of the Governors. The church’s official name was Nuesta Señora de la Luz (Our Lady of the Light), however, most of the…
