Parishes of Roswell New Mexico
On other pages of this issue of “Franciscan Missions” will be found an article on the...
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Pecos Pueblo or Cicuyé
The average tourist traversing the State of New Mexico from East to West on the transcontinental division of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is impressed with the immensity of lands which apparently lie in waste along...
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Tigua Nation first to Embrace Christian Faith
By 1617 a Mission was established and a church erected at San Ildefonso. The pueblo belongs to the...
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Twelve Years free from Spanish Control
For twelve years they then lived, free from all Spanish control, proud in their freedom, yet,...
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Churches of New Mexico
In 1617 there were eleven churches in New Mexico the ruins of one of which, that of Pecos, can...
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Missions at the Coal Mines near Gallup
Every Sunday Holy Mass is said at Gibson, N. M., about three miles distant from Gallup. The...
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Franciscans in New Mexico and Arizona, 1539
Written in emblazoned letters on the pages of history of the Catholic Church is the great work...
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Order of Friars Minor Explore New Mexico
Cortez had conquered Mexico; Pizarro was conquered in Peru; Balboa had discovered the South Sea...
Read MoreThe Franciscan Missions of the Southwest
First Number 1913 A “Society for the Preservation of the Faith among Indian Children.” Approved and recommended by His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons, by His Excellency, the Apostolic Delegate, and by many Most...
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Mission for the Navajo Indians
In an article written for the Indian Sentinel of 1908, I have dealt at some length with the Navajo...
Read MoreThe Missionary Spirit of St. Francis and his Seraphic Order
Much has been beautifully written on St. Francis, the lover of nature, his childlike simplicity, his ardent love of Christ Crucified, of his espousal of Poverty, of his filial obedience to the Vicar of Christ and the Catholic...
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The New Kingdom of St. Francis
The new Kingdom of St. Francis in our Southwest comprises at present 56,000 square miles, a...
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