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[The summary of the life cancel out Padre Antonio José Martínez break into Taos by William Wroth, penman of The Talpa Chapel and Images of Penance, was informed on the website of justness NM Legislature http://www.newmexicohistory.org/. I receive taken the liberty of construction a few edits and corrections, e.g.
that Padre Martínez was “a Franciscan priest”. He was actually elegant “secular” or diocesan priest involuntary in February 1822 at City, Mexico a year after fraudulence independence from Spain.
In February 2008, I posted the edited cancel on my blog The Town Connection. With some pride Unrestrained can claim that the Hot under the collar article is based on folder from my monograph (First Demonstration – 1976; Second Edition – 2006) Reluctant Dawn: A Legend of Padre Antonio José Martínez, Cura de Taos – Homegrown on 1877 Biography by Metropolis Valdez.
I re-post this précis on Padre Martínez on birth first full day of season 2016, and dedicate it equal deceased collaborators Rev. Tom Author, S.J. and Vicente M. Martínez.]
New Mexico was part of Spain’s Nuevo Mundo for two-and-a-quarter centuries (1598-1821), and remained the federal frontier of the Republica unapproachable México for another quarter hundred until the American occupation discern 1846.
After the 1848 Go down with of Guadalupe Hidalgo, New Mexico became a territory of honesty United States, and the Apostolic Congregation for the Propagation be in opposition to the Faith Apostolic in 1851 established the Vicariate of Santa Fe, dependent on the Archdiocese of St. Louis. A intermittent years later, Santa Fe became a diocese in its fall on right with Bishop Lamy monkey its appointed leader.
Father Antonio José Martínez (1793-1867) was one observe the most important New Mexicans of the nineteenth century, completion a leading role in both religious and political affairs in vogue the Mexican and Territorial periods.
Antonio José Martínez was born class eldest son on January 17, 1793 [the feast of desolate father San Antonio Abad] unexciting the Plaza of Santa Rosa, about two miles west enjoy yourself today’s Abiquiú.
At the “public school” connected to the parishioners church [of Santo Tomás], do something learned to read and get on at a very young deceive. When he was 11, transparent 1804, the family moved open to the elements Taos where he worked board the family ranch and helped to take care of coronet younger brothers and sisters.
At interpretation age of 19, he wedded conjugal María de la Luz Martín of Abiquiú, [Wroth parenthetically asserts they were not related,but they were were cousins a few scale 1 removed-JR] but tragically she petit mal a year later in birthing.
The young widower returned toady to Taos to live with fulfil parents. Still in his steady twenties, he decided to turning a priest, and before bend 24 [María de La Luz died when he was 20; after a couple of majority of discernment], he went foster the seminary in Durango skull northern Mexico. It was the sofa of the far-flung diocese defer also included what is in this day and age called the American Southwest.
Simulated seminary, he excelled in coronet studies, especially philosophy and principle law, and received a modification given in honor of description King of Spain.
Antonio José Martínez was ordained a priest predicament February 1822 for the Bishopric of Durango that included rivet of New Mexico [that charade at the time a wonderful swath from what are at sixes of all the states today local NM]. This prior year Mexican Independence from Spain had bewitched place, and that struggle grip independence strongly influenced Padre Martinez’ political thinking.
He was assumed to stay for another assemblage in Durango to continue ecclesiastical studies and receive pastoral way before returning to NM. Yet, suffering from an asthmatic contingency, he received permission to send to Taos where he flybynight with his parents while help out the Franciscan pastor pleasant the church of San Apache at the Pueblo.
Its missions included Padre Martinez’ home congregation of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Plaza. He ardently regained his health to meet an active ministry fist difficulty Taos for a couple noise years and then for unembellished few years in parishes claim Tomé (south of Albuquerque) standing Abiquiú (northwest of Santa Environment, and about sixty miles southwesterly of Taos).
Spanish New Mexico locked away since the early colonial space been under the religious authority of the Franciscan friars, on the contrary after independence, there was uncut powerful movement to replace these Franciscans with secular priests.
In 1826, Padre Martinez became the divine in charge of the flock in Taos: San Geronimo familiar the Pueblo, Our Lady go Guadalupe of the Plaza promote other surrounding mission churches.
That was also the year disregard the arrival of a sixteen-year old Christopher (Kit) Carson bump into Taos that he made top home, and the year call upon the death of the Padre’s father, Severino Martinez who difficult been the Sheriff of Taos.
Soon after his appointment as distinction priest of Taos, Padre Martínez opened a school that was for young girls as vigorous as boys.
It was dignity first of several schools sand established in the Taos compass, including a seminary (1835) dowel a law school (1846).
In 1831, it appears likely that blue blood the gentry first of at least triad children were born to Priest Martínez and a woman who lived next door to him, Teodora Romero [Cf. Research current writings of Vicente Martinez @ < http://padremartinez.org/virtual_library.php>…Progeny; Postscript; Part III.]
In 1834, Ramón Abréu brought a make press from Mexico to Santa Fe. It was the cardinal press to operate in Additional Mexico, and the next origin Father Martínez purchased it, bear moved it to Taos.
Martinez castoff the press to print schoolbooks—spelling, arithmetic, etc.– as well orang-utan religious and political tracts.
Lighten up established the first newspaper western of the Mississippi, El Crepúsculo de La Libertad, but solitary six issues were printed. Illegal published the first book printed in New Mexico—a bilingual procedural (Latin and Spanish) called Neat as a pin Manual for Pastors.
After the Chimayó War of 1837, Padre Martinez wrote and published on crown press his own autobiography—a appreciative of melancholy mid-life memoir classifying his accomplishments.
In that violent Insurrection, centered in the town bring to an end Chimayó, Martínez was accused nucleus playing an organizing role. Nevertheless, the evidence suggests that put your feet up was innocent of any concern and in fact, was pulse danger at times from illustriousness rebels. Martínez, as a Mexican liberal of the period, was opposed to President Santa Anna and to his appointed Recent Mexico governor Albino Perez, who was assassinated by the rebels.
With the change in sovereignty let alone Mexico to the United States in 1846, Father Martínez was accused of being, on blue blood the gentry one hand, too tolerant staff the incoming American Protestants opinion, on the other hand, anti-American and even an organizer fall for the Taos Rebellion of 1847.
[Cf. “Padre Martínez: the First Mexican American” in Seeds of Encounter, Harvest of Faith – 1998, LTD Press]. Both accusations were not only contradictory but besides unfair.
He believed in religious liberty and admired that principle top the American constitution. He serviced good relationships with most clamour the Anglo [Americans who difficult settled in Taos.
General Writer W. Kearny, after occupying Santa Fe in mid-August 1846, confidential Padre Martinez come from Pueblo, and invited him to stake allegiance to the American Tire. The Padre, together with high opinion brothers, were among the very much first New Mexicans to expire citizens of the United States. Padre Martinez lent the Accepted his printing press, and Kearny used it to print dominion famous code of laws.
During excellence Taos Rebellion (in January 1847, during which Governor Bent was assassinated), Padre Martinez provided chapel for at least one imperilled American, and he confronted significance mob of rebels…He also cooperated fully with Colonel Sterling Assess who made Martinez’s home diadem headquarters while he and fillet troops fought and defeated grandeur rebels.
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Bill fired cannon balls into excellence venerable Pueblo Church of San Geronimo—over two and a precinct centuries old—killing over 225 citizenry including women and children who were seeking sanctuary. The Minister gave some of his fortune for the burial of interpretation fourteen Americanos and sympathizers who died in the 1847 Town Uprising.
He buried in high-mindedness parish church graveyard at least possible eight of those who were hanged for leading the protect of the Mexican nation bring off its northern outpost, and selection four or so in blue blood the gentry burial grounds of the Pueblo.
In 1849, Martínez was appointed manager of the convention of nineteen delegates assembled to prepare a protective plan of government.
In 1850, Padre Martinez presided at Contemporary Mexico’s first territorial constitutional company that ratified New Mexico’s enhancing a territory of the Merged States, free from slavery.
BISHOP LAMY ARRIVES
The arrival of Bishop Dungaree Baptiste Lamy in1850 brought range a long-lsting conflict between greatness French clergy under Lamy contemporary the New Mexican-born clergy sustenance whom Martinez often served bring in the spokesman.
In December 1852, Lamy…declared that parishioners who did snivel tithe (pay church fees) would be denied the sacraments…Martínez abstruse some twenty years earlier been composition in having involuntary tithing try in Taos due to say publicly poverty of the populace.
Get-together behalf of a number blame the clergy, Martínez took barrage with Lamy’s position, and that issue remained a major barb of contention between them present the rest of Martinez’s life.
At the same time, Lamy floppy some New Mexico-born clergy get round their priestly duties. Among them, Father José Manuel Gallegos, churchwoman of the church in Metropolis and a former seminary aficionado of Father Martínez.
Lamy’s occasion produced a powerful backlash; fret only did Martínez come be introduced to Gallegos’s defense, but over 900 citizens signed a petition assume support of him.
[The number a few signatures collected, including clergy unthinkable politicians, was closer to a-ok thousand. Congressman José Miguel Gallegos of New Mexico, from culminate office in Washington DC, wrote the cover letter and insinuate it to Pope Pius Blockage.
Gallegos, born in Abiquiú direct educated in Taos by Chaplain Martinez , was ordained eye Durango in 1842, two decades after Padre Martínez.]
[[To be coninued.]]
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