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Show Tae 946 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY CATHOLIC unexpectedly Santa Fé, where, on the 14th of February, he very His remains were depassed away. posited, on the 16th of February, 1n a DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP LAMY vault which is now covered by the successor in the archepiscopal see His l. main altar of the cathedra in New Mexihas said that ‘‘the life of the Most Rev. John B. Lamy and charhumble pious, was Lamy co was that of an apostle. Bishop and itable. Anybody, poor or rich, found him always accessible in was He ’ needy.’ the help to ready as far as was in his power, a of work the did He st. southwe the of bishop pioneer the truth pioneer; he put his religion on a firm basis; he gave 1t form and foundation, and to him more than any other is due the praise of New Mexicans for the great stability and progress of the faith in the new southwest. In the month of August, 1891, the Rev. Placidus L. Chapelle, D.v., rector of St. Matthew’s church in the city of Washington, was appointed Bishop of Arabissus and ARCHBISHOP PLACIDUS L. CHAPELLE coadjutor to Archbishop Salpointe. He was consecrated the same year by His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, in the cathedral of Baltimore. archbishop. Bishop Chapelle was an able assistant to the venerable He went abroad in 1893 in search of missionaries, VIS conferred ited the Pope and, on the 10th of May of that year, had the 9th On Sebaste. of see scopal archepi the of title the him upon of January, 1894, he became the archbishop of Santa Fé by the resignation of Archbishop Salpointe. The pallium was conferred upon him at Santa Fé, October 17, 1895, by His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons.?"4 274 Salpointe, Most. Rev. J. B., Soldiers of the Cross, pp. 279, 280: gv occasion was made the most remarkable of all solemnities, either civil or ot a His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, ligious, ever witnessed in Santa Fé. bishop of Baltimore, who was to preside at the festival, arrived at Santa 7 The entire population of the city ye by a special train, Tuesday, October 15. at the depot to welcome the first Cardinal of the Holy Roman rare" came to honor New Mexico with a visit. All the school children, the ee and associations of the city, the National Guard, after His Eminence had “i received with the most enthusiastic hurrahs, formed in line and pe through the principal streets, dence of the Archbishop. which were profusely illuminated, On the 17th, at ten o’clock, an imposing to the panes escor of prelates and priests formed at the residence of the Archbishop and Cardinal Gibbons to the Cathedral. The prelates were Archbishop Ene Louis, Bishop Donahue of Wheeling, Bishop Hennessy of Wichita, b's a CHURCH IN NEW MEXICO 347 On February 28, 1896, His Eminence, Cardinal Satolli, delegate apostolic to the United States, arrived at Santa Fé, where, for a few days, he was the guest of Archbishop CARDINAL SATOLLI VISITS Chapelle. The cardinal celebrated ponNEW MEXICO tifical mass in the cathedral March 1, 1896. Archbishop Chapelle visited all parts of the diocese, administered confirmation to 28,000 candidates, and brought from Europe twenty-two missionaries, almost all of whom are today acting as parish priests. On December 1, 1897, Archbishop Chapelle was appointed to the see of New Orleans as successor to Archbishop Janssens. He was appointed apostolic delegate extraordinary for Cuba and Porto Rico. After the Spanish-American war he was sent to Havana. Later, he returned to New Orleans where, in giving aid to the people of his diocese who were stricken with yellow fever, he contracted the dread disease and died on the 9th day of August, 1905. Truly, ‘‘the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”’ Archbishop Chapelle was succeeded by the Most Rev. Peter Bourgade, D. D., who was consecrated in the cathedral of Santa Fé by Archbishop Lamy May 1, 1885, as tiARCHBISHOP PETER BOURGADE tular bishop of Thamaucum and vicar apostolic of Arizona. On the 8th of es , 1897, he was made bishop of Tucson and was transferred to a January 7, 1899. He received the sacred pallium from Onder, of Los Angeles, Bishop Dunn of Dallas, Bishop Gabriels of Archbishow oe Beaven of Springfield, Bishop Bourgade of Tuscon, and the Washington hapelle and Salpointe of Santa Fé, also Monsieur Stephan of ferent : This beautiful line was headed by seventy-five priests from difsurplice pier and almost all those of New Mexico, all wearing cassock and ouis deliy er the gospel of the Pontifical Mass, Archbishop Kain of St. ishop Bo “si an eloquent sermon on the history and meaning of the pallium. Paper aaa. history of and after a of Tucson, at the end of the mass, read a very interesting _ Spanish by the Most Rev. © Church in the province of Santa Archbishop Salpointe, on the Fé. Then the Cardinal arose, Archbisho Paying an eloquent tribute to the first Bishop of Santa Fé, the late addressed hi amy, and to the newly retired Archbishop Salpointe, he, at last, efore a? with evident high personal regard, to Archbishop Chapelle & new Archbishop Shoulders the Pallium, as required to complete the dress then © meanj aoe Chapelle returned his thanks to the Cardinal briefly im Spanish, explaining to the throng "& of the brilliant ceremonies of the day.’’ gathered in English and in the church |