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Show MISSIONS, FRAYLES, AND PRIESTS 185 noted the death of Jesus Maria Baca, who was a printer on the Crepusculo. When Iturbide was made emperor, the Marquis de Castafiza He was holding this position in 1824, was the bishop of Durango. at which time he appointed Don Agustin Fernandez de San Vicente his vicar-general, THE MISSIONS UNDER visitor, and ecclesiastical governor of New MEXICAN RULE Mexico, but this distinguished clergyman did not reach Santa Fé until after the death of the bishop. He entered upon the performance of his duties on the 10th of April, 1826. ‘The missions of Taos, San Juan, Abiquii, Belen and Bado,”’ says Dr. Shea,!27 ‘‘had been secularized and were now passing into The religious protested, but Fr. the hands of secular priests. Sebastian Alvarez, custos or superior of the Franciscan fathers, cooperated with the visitor as far as he could, although the latter was very hostile to the friars, and a friend and adherent of ManHis uel Arispe. rule was severe inflexible. and Alvarez, drew up a plan of studies for a ment proposed to found at Santa Fé. was appointed parish priest of Abiquii, Jesus Leiva) of Alburquerque, Rev. John Custos, The college which The Rev. A. Rev. Leyva T. Terrazas Fr. the governJ. Martinez (Fr. José de of Santa Fé, Rev. John F. Ortiz of San Juan de los Caballeros, Rev. Francis i, New Mexico received a new ecclesiastical de Madariaga of Tomé. ruler in the person of the Bachelor Don Juan Rafael Rascon, ap- pointed in 1828, Ecclesiastical Governor, Vicar-General Forain, an He reached Santa Fé on the Visitor, by the chapter of Durango. l, oth of March, 1829, and was received by the authorities politica military, and ecclesiastical, who conducted him to the parish church, The Franciscan Custodia was nearing Where a te Dewm was sung. It was now subject to Father Manuel Garcia del Valle, its end. Dr. This clergyman died at Sandia in June, 1834. as vice-custos. Rascon, as usual on visitations called for the production of faculties, His rule was more . renewing them where he found no obstacle was authorized by Rascon Dr. . Vicente San of kindly than that confirmation in of nt sacrame the confer to Pontiff gn the Soverei New Mexico, and on the first of August, 1829, issued a circular to its the parish priests directing them to prepare the children for The number of priests in New Mexico was now greatly reception. same reduced, so that two or three places were attended by the the province, of history the in time first the for and clergyman, ee 127 Shea, Dr. John States, pp. 302-303. Gilmary, History of the Catholic Church in the United |
