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Show TE 342 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN CATHOLIC HISTORY thirty-seven priests, and six ecclesiastics in minor orders soon to be ordained, had built forty-five churches and chapels, holding from three hundred to a thousand persons; that he had repaired eighteen or twenty; that he had four houses of Sisters of Loretto, three of Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, all in a prosperous and flourish- was brought to New of as Colorado and suffragans. lous newspaper, York by his excellence, Bishop 3ishop highly Lamy Lamy to Cardinal attended appreciated for Prefect the second his great Barnabo, plenary work that March council he of received 12, of the miner, 271 Salpointe, ceremony took or in the Most Rev. place on Michael’s 3rothers, St. Mexico. Bishop J. Vatican at the B., Soldiers the 16th College, feet of of the the Cross, Roncetti, McCloskey The cere- an executive, 1865. Baltimore. the He singular being intrusted alone to bring the acts of the council to the approbation. He was equally at home whether in the hut of Holy the cabin pallium Monsignor delegated by the Pope to carry the insignia to Archbishop of New York, afterward elevated to the cardinalate.2"! 270 of Ari- The Pontiff. pp. of June, 1875, in the house where better accommodation 264, was 80 honor o1 See for its Indian, the 265: standing, placed the pallium on the shoulders of the new archbishop, saying: ‘‘For the honor of Almighty God and the Blessed Mary, ever Virgin, of the holy apostles, Saints and Paul, of our Lord F ope Pius IX of the Holy Roman Church, and of Peter the Church of Santa Fe con fided to your care. we deliver you the pallium taken from the tomb of Saint Jata hie “son. - . ’ . A Ls a Peter, which signifies the plenitudes of the episcopal power, with the title an 343 and a college They also instituted the printing of a relig- the Revista Catolica, the first number of which was not Father Gasparri. only against the society but against its leader, The act was clearly unconstitutional and should never have been introduced An enduring monument for the consideration of the assembly. to the sacrifices of Archbishop Lamy and ot his priests and the Catholic people of New Mexico, is the beautiful “The of the Christian for the people could be found than in the old St. Francis Cathedral. During mass, which was celebrated by Bishop Machebeuf, two short addresses were given, one by ue Vicar General, Very Rev. Peter Eguillon in Spanish, and one by the Vee Apostolic of Denver in English. Both were explanatory of the ceremony of the day, and were listened to with great satisfaction by the large congregation. When the time came, according to the rubrics, for the imposition of the Pallium, the Archbishop, kneeling before the altar, had it placed his shoulders, while the proper formula was read by the Vicar Apostolic ofon Arizona, delegated for the purpose.’’ This was a day never to be forgotten in the history of the chureh in I iil Salpointe, MEXICO issued January 2, 1875. On the 18th of January, 1878, an act to incorporate the society of the Jesuit Fathers of New Mexico was passed by the territorial assembly by a two-thirds vote over the veto of Samuel B. Axtell, at that time governor of New Mexico. The act was annulled by the congress of the United States. The act as passed save unlimited power to acquire, hold, and transfer all kinds of property, both real and personal, and the exemption from taxation of all the effects and property of the corporation. Governor Axtell, In his veto message, was very bitter in his denunciation of the bill and used very strong language, hardly temperate in character for three thousand; in Arizona, five thousand. In the month of February, 1875, by decree of Pope Pius IX, Santa Fé was erected into a metropolitan see, and Bishop Lamy made its archbishop, with the vicars zona NEW school at Alburquerque, at Las Vegas in 1877. ing condition. He estimated the Catholics in New Mexico at one hundred thousand, nine thousand being Pueblo Indians ; in Colorado, apostolic IN mony for the investiture of the pallium was had on the 16th of June, 1875, Mgr. Salpointe, then vicar apostolic of Arizona, having been delegated by the Roman prelate, Roncetti, and charged with the delivery of this insignia of church authority. On the 15th of August, 1867, the order of the Jesuits was introduced into Bishop Lamy’s diocese. Their efforts resulted in a great revival of zeal and devotion throughTHE JESUITS IN NEW MEXICO out the territory. They founded a He apostolic, of which Most Rev. Salpointe was elected bishop. received his episcopal consecration in Europe. In 1865 Bishop Lamy 7° was able to make report to the Propaganda that on reaching New Mexico he found ten priests, neglectful and extortionate, churches in ruins, and no schools; that now he had SANTA FE MADE AN ARCHDIOCESE CHURCH a name of of Archbishop, a : sae ; which you shall use within your church on certain days, 4818 determined in the ilinetne privileges granted by the Apostolic See. ’’ atic ‘i 6Alana investiture, Archbishop Lamy rose and turning to the imtude to the % = with words coming from his heart ; expressions of gratiOf Mis.own : ; ml Father, of confusion for himself thus raised without merit fied their Aa, shake to the clergy and the people, who by their presence signifter the fn ee in the great honor which had been conferred upon him. esl : hia ction had been pronounced, the multitude, with bands playing, evening bi Stipe loud huzzahs for His Grace, proceeded to the plaza. | In the rangparent set was beautifully illuminated. _In front of the cathedral were uf a oc traits of Pope Pius [X, Archbishop Lamy, and Bishops Machement eat oo? In the plaza music was discoursed by the U. S. governWag made b rien were reserved for the prelates and the clergy; an address Di fens i. onel William Breeden, in English, and another by Major José ciyi] est loved ie ee language. The ot rotestant and Catholic, 4n in all New Mexico. military, the all participated territorial in doing and other honor to the |