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Show OF NEW HISTORY MEXICAN a wn PET DH y) YI i)HA — SS } HM TAO LM TT excommunication against the governor, the latter claiming authority to appoint petty Indian officials at the missions, both being and Ofiate is supposed to have made his camp when he moved from San Gabriel on the Rio Grande in 1605; here General Kearny first floated the Stars and Stripes of the American government, in 1846, the place being marked by a stone also furnished by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In this Plaza the Indians burned the archives and sacred vessels of the church during the revolution of 1680, and here De Vargas entered in triumph twelve years later. A handsome monument in the center of the Plaza, erected by the people of New Mexico, commemorates the deeds of the soldiers who fell on New Mexican soil in the many Indian wars, the war of the rebellion, and a local organization of the women of the capital has placed near-by a drinking fountain, of bronze, in memory of Archbishop Lamy. Rosario Chapel, in the cemetery of that name, commemorates the victory of De Vargas over the Pueblo Indians in 1692, and is the terminus of the annual historic De Vargas procession, which, with the two annual Corpus Cristi processions and the custom of celebrating Guadalupe day, Christmas eve, and other holidays by the lighting of numerous bonfires, is an echo of those ancient customs that gives Santa Fé a charm peculiarly its own. The following is a translation of the entry in the journal of De Vargas relative to the chapel of San Miguel, which had been burned in 1680: TT PR TUN bee . TS) AJ a état THE SAID GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN-GENERAL DE VARGAS ORDERS THAT THE CAPTAIN AND GOVERNOR OF THE WALLED PUEBLO, AS ALSO ANTONIO BOLSAS AND TOGETHER GO TO EXAMINE THE HERMITAGE OF SAN_ On the said day, month and year of the date, I, said Governor and Captain-General, very much grieved on account of the severity of the weather and the cold (suffered by the Indians) who in troops while away the time visiting the (ranch) huts in the plain. And, in order to act in everything with necessary prudence, I mounted on horseback, and with a few military officers and the REPAIRED, IT MAY SERVE AS A CHURCH TILL THE Madrid, I went to examine the church or hermitage which was used as a parish church for the Mexican COMING OF SUMMER captains Francisco Lucero de Godoy Indians who lived in the said town and Roque (villa) under the title of the invocation of their patron, the Archangel San Miguel. And having examined it, though of small dimensions, and not for the accommodation of a great number; notwithstanding, on account of said inclemency of the weather, and the urgency of having a church in which should be celebrated the Divine Office and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and in order that our Lady of the Conquest may have a becoming place, I, said Governor and Captain-General, recognized that it is proper to roof said walls, and to white-wash and repair its skylights (windows) in a manner that Shall be the quickest, easiest, briefest and least laborious to said natives. The parties alluded to being present, and the said governors of aforesaid pueblo, Joseph and Antonio Bolsas, I ordered that they should send said natives; having taken measures in respect to lumber aforesaid, and having offered them axes, and mules for its fast conveyance that those who were adapted to hewing said lumber should do So, and that those who were fit for the trade of masons in repairing said walls should be ordered in like manner, and that I, on my part, should have the Spaniards whom I had with me to assist thereat, And that said work should be immediately executed, I went with them to the aforesaid pueblo, and being within their village square natives who were there in the manner before described. (plaza), I ordered the And Cee r a a yy Hi Wy as Hi LH) Mii, i i Hi) HH HH I also exhorted MMi) f WS YY) / yy y Wf 4/9 WM MMT TMT Ty My My) i i ee oD rS c 5 © 5he 99 ~ A. D. 1692, December, 18. MIGUEL, SO THAT IT BEING TS: <9® / i, whi 5 or) cD | = oD or — oC © to C2 © © co" bed© ot es } etait eR. FACTS Se 5 LEADING Ss == 336 |