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Show Re oreeeneg ee SE etait 7 i s 0 tag 386 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN ee MS ea Nk HISTORY In the year 1853, leaving Rev. Machebeuf in charge at Santa Fé, Bishop Lamy went to France and thence to Rome, where he was most kindly received by Pope Pius IX. He made a personal appeal to the Pope for laborers, and a company of zealous French priests 2 and ministerial students returned to America with the bishop, arriving at Santa Fé, November 15, 1854. Churches in all parts of New Mexico were revived or established by their efforts. The Rev. Peter Kguillon, afterwards vicar-general and parish priest of the cathedral, was one of this party. Rev. Eguillon himself was sent to France in 1859, for teachers, and in October of that year arrived with four brothers of the Order of San Miguel, and nine priests and ecclesiastics. Then was begun St. Michael’s college at Santa Fé. The first building was erected in 1879. Another grand welcome met Bishop Lamy upon his return. The °°3 Most Rev. J. B. Salpointe, Soldiers of the Cross, pp. 207, 208: ‘The first one who responded to the call of the young bishop of Santa Fé was the Rev. Peter Eguillon, then the first assistant priest of one of the principal churches of the city (Clermont). This priest was kept about a year in Santa Fé to teach theology to some seminarians, and to prepare them for their ordination. In October, 1855, he was sent as parish priest to Socorro, where he remain ed until November 4th, 1858, when he was appointed parish priest of the Cathedral and Vicar General of the diocese. Father Eguillon died on the 21st of July, 1892, in the Seventy fourth year of his age, after thirty years of meritorious and fruitful work in the missions of New Mexico. The second a ne Se , oT one was Rev. Anthony Juillard, a zealous priest, who remained only a few years in the diocese owing to bad health, and returned to France, where he died in 1888. The third was Rev. Stephen Avel, who, on the 3rd of August, 1858, died as parish priest of Mora. These three priests came from the diocese of Clermont. With them also came the Revs. Damaso Taladr id and C. Martin, whom the Bishop had met in Rome. Of the same party were three seminarians, viz: the Revs. John Guerin, a deacon, who was ordained priest on the 22rd of December, 1854, and who died as parish priest of Mora, June 10th, 1885; Eugene Paulet, a sub-deacon, ordained priest er 22nd, 1855, who died in France in 1887, having been the parish priestDecemb of Belen for over thirty years, and Xavier Vauré, a deacon who died on the day of his arrival at Santa Fé of a disease he had contracted on the plains.’’ With the caravan across the plains were also the Rev. Eulogio Ortiz, a priest from New Mexico, who had accomp anied the Bishop to ; Jesus M. Ortiz and Florencio Gonzales, who had been sent previously Europe to France for a course im the seminary of Clermont; an Irish family named Covington, and a gentleman named McCarthy, a personal friend of Priests who came later, at the solicitation theof bishop. the Very Rev. Machebeuf, who had been sent to France for that purpose, were the Revs. Gabriel Ussel, Joseph oT Agustin Truchard, John B. Rallier e, John B. Fayet, and Joseph n. The Rey. Fayet was sent to San Mj 1 i iest d later became parish priest; he established schools oF eh Monae pire ae r a of f ete Santa “ s ae He, in 1859, eighteen parishes or heads of missions in the diocese ~ . e = e . * ye ne l. Vietorio. velcaraed 2, Mangas : oe 14+ oP Annes Coloradas. ms 3. Natchez. : 5 4. Geronimo ed ade Ec |