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Show 3 aa ae tii sii nae ace ee eminenssteci 1 FACTS NEW OF MEXICAN HISTORY — tary contributions for a long had supported time ae “ecm sana enna ALOT TR 2p 5, eaggcpantcem te OEY LOLOL! meme eae: stig in the those they converted 112, Thomas, 113, History says of of the Roman the work of the Catholic church Church from character of the temporal in the to and the of toil. Mexico civilized, still survive in New Yet, as look and Arizona and the friars’ government; the generosity of Spain in furnishing given the mismeans of subsistence; the military protection of guardians, spiritual their the Indians under religious priests. ‘What their ruin? I name whites, as as external a being rule, causes the wild roving tribes that of the revolution of Mexico, and the consequent confiscation mission field ; the funds and secularization of missions in the southwestern building 1n influential so been had withdrawal of that military protection that the the want of gradual preparation inin the them up. I name as internal causes tutelage to independent manhood, and passage of the Indian tribes from clergy; the transfer of the missions from the religious orders to the diocesantransfer and for the bishops, who alone could prepare — tardiness in appointing missionaries. early the of place take would create the diocesan clergy that remained heathen; ‘‘The ; the ‘‘This one glorious truth stands prominent homes, States did not drive the natives from their United 1840, success to the difference Sionaries; the separation of the Indians from the whites evenunder diocesan, the United States, 1520 and missions. I answer; the blood of martyrs, the zeal of ‘CWhat made their success? tribes into fixed communities; the missionaries; the reduction of the roving and paternal industrial training imparted to the Indians; the patriarchal 129 Pino, P. B., Noticias Historicas del Nuevo Mezico, p. 33: ‘‘ Libro primero pp. at least we ruin, of the Spanish de gobierno ecclesidstico, 1828-1832 ; Libro en que se asientan los autos de la visita ecca. ge en el ahio 1829, comen zo L LL el Dr. Don Juan Rafael — Rascon. Shea, Dr. J. Gilmary, History of the Catholic Church in the United States, p304 and note. ; O’Gorman, palace, It is well worth while to inquire what made the success, what the that is all. of government still paid—or at least made appropriations for — the sinodos from 23 to 27 Franciscan friars; but these were for the most part acting Indian the to visits occasional making curates at the Mexican settlements, pueblos under their spiritual charge.’’ State, vastness the the it in around to-day, we can find nothing of it that remains. Names of saints melodious Spanish stand out from maps in all that section where the Spanish of monk trod, toiled and died. A few thousand Christian Indians, descendants of the Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mezico, says: by us into if not It was a glorious work, and the recital of civilization. into the ante-chamber impresses introduced, and Christianity, of the knowledge worthy of being called temples of God.*’® 128 Shea, Dr. J. Gilmary, History of the Catholic Church 187 PRIESTS AND In the year 1832, Rt. Rev. José Antonio Laureano de Zubiria was made bishop of Durango and the official announcement of the fact and instructions from him reached Santa He was at Abiquiu in Fé in February, 1832. VISIT OF THE July, and on the Feast of the Assumption at BISHOP OF DURANGO Santa Fé where he was received with great enSpecial preparations were made at all points for his rethusiasm. ception when he made his visitation of the department; roads and bridges were repaired and the houses gaily decorated with flags and At this time Rev. Juan Felipe Ortiz was the vicar-genflowers.*° eral, and in October, 1833, this prelate and the parish priests at elsewhere they amounted to nothing.”’ *** de los At this time the parishes of Alburquerque, San Juan of Picuries, Caballeros, and Socorro were vacant, and the missions Nambé, Pojoaque, Pecos, Santo Domingo, Sandia, Jemez, Cia, were Santa Ana, Laguna, Acoma, and Zufii as well. These missions Francisall served from the places where six secular priests and five Barreiro, in his notes to Pino’s history, says that cans still resided. without confession or extreme unction, and that died many persons nothing was more rare than to see the Holy Eucharist administered; that the churches were nearly all in ruins, and most of them un p. 303. FRAYLES, MISSIONS, priests to say two masses on it became necessary to permit some l in Santa Fe, used as a Migue San of h churc The old Sunday. In a tottering condition, was , church chapel of ease to the parish the sale of a small piece rized and Dr. Rascon, in April, 1831, autho Dr. Rascon’s the repairs. effect to order in it, of front in of land in New Mexico, was h Churc the of ion condit the on report in 1830, Churches and parochial residences were a melancholy picture. ion, some so utterly unfit in a deplorable, almost ruinous condit for divine service; the vestuse that necessity alone justified their , so that, unless they were ments were old and the altar plate scanty sible to maintain the impos be years few a in would it ed, restor hes had been erected churc times r forme in As on. services of religi people had never the king; the by ained and missionaries maint in number, 1med reduc now, and been accustomed to contribute In induced to begin. poverished by revolution, they could not be a the fees and volunCafad La in and ue, querq Albur Fé, Santa clergy; but — stage A ences = chipset ———— LEADING 186 @ ‘‘In space it expanded from the period of more than three hundred years: Atlantic to the Pacific, south of the thirty-eighth degree of latitude, an covered our present states of Flarida, Alabama, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Over a hundred thousand of the aborigines were brought to Spaniards in the United much less destroy them. These accusations, if made at all, must fall on some other race. mentions this the Prairies, i, p. 255, _ 130 Gregg, Dr. Josiah, Commerce anof observer Dr. Gregg was a Success, but it As visit of the bishop of Durango. prejudiced whenever he wrote of the is very evident that he was very much On visit, he says: church or any of its dignitaries or its ritual. Of this Fé in 1833, an event the occasion of the Bishop of Durango’s visit to Santa population infatuated the years, many great a for place which had not taken the been much devotional enthusiasm as if it had were made everywhere preparations Magnificent route Second advent of thethe Messiah. streets were swept, the roads and bridges on the for his reception; city there hung such a repaired and decorated; and from every window inthethe imagination carried was that profusion of fancy curtains and rich eloths hailed his arrival with as |