Lamy of Santa Fe

Lamy of Santa Fe

by Paul Horgan

NOVELS
The Fault of Angels • The Habit of Empire • No Quarter Given
The Common Heart • Main Line West • Give Me Possession
A Lamp on the Plains • Memories of the Future • A Distant Trumpet
Far from Cibola • Whitewater
Mountain Standard Time
(containing
Main Line West, Far from Cibola
, and
The Common Heart)
Mexico Bay

THE RICHARD TRILOGY
Things As They Are • Everything to Live For • The Thin Mountain Air

OTHER FICTION
The Return of the Weed • The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve
Figures in a Landscape • Humble Powers • The Devil in the Desert
Toby and the Nighttime (
juvenile
)
One Red Rose for Christmas
The Peach Stone:
Stories from Four Decades

HISTORY AND OTHER NON-FICTION
Men of Arms (
juvenile
) • From the Royal City
New Mexico's Own Chronicle (
with Maurice Garland Fulton
)
Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
The Centuries of Santa Fe • Rome Eternal • Citizen of New Salem
Conquistadors in North American History
Peter Hurd:
A Portrait Sketch from Life
• Songs After Lincoln
The Heroic Triad:
Essays in the Social Energies of
Three Southwestern Cultures
• Maurice Baring Restored
Encounters with Stravinsky:
A Personal Record
• Approaches to Writing
Lamy of Santa Fe:
His Life and Times
Josiah Gregg and His Vision of the Early West

COLLECTIVE VOLUME
Of America East & West
Selections From the Writings of
Paul Horgan

LAMY
OF
SANTA FE

Paul Horgan

Wesleyan University Press
Middletown, Connecticut

Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459
www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

Copyright © 1975 by Paul Horgan
All rights reserved

Published by arrangement with
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
LLC
First Wesleyan University Press edition 2003

ISBN
-13: 978-0–8195–6532–7

Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Horgan, Paul, 1903–

Lamy of Santa Fe, his life and times / Paul Horgan.

p. cm.

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and

Giroux, 1975.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN
0–8195–6532–6 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Lamy, John Baptist, 1814–1888. 2.

Catholic Church—New Mexico—Bishops—Biography. I. Title.

BX4705.L265 H67 2003

282'.092—dc21

[
B
]                                 2002033055

In Homage and Affection
to
Henry Allen Moe
and
to
the memory of
Harriet Christy,
a promise fulfilled

Contents

I. FRANCE • 1814–1839

II. THE MIDDLE WEST • 1839–1850

III. TO SANTA FE • 1850–1851

IV. THE DESERT DIOCESE • 1851–1852

V. THE ANTAGONISTS • 1852–1856

VI. SCANDAL AT TAOS • 1852–1861

VII. THE COLONISTS • 1858–1863

VIII. THE PAINTED LAND • 1863–1867

IX. ROME AND BATTLE • 1867

X. INCREASE • 1868–1874

XI ARCHBISHOP • 1875–1880

XII. GARDENER AND APOSTLE • 1880–1885

XIII. DAY'S END AT SANTA FE • 1884–1889

Sources Consulted

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Illustrations

map spread across

Travels of Lamy and Machebeuf in America 1839–1884

following page 140

SANTA FE LIFE IN THE LAMY EPOCH

The old adobe parish church and first cathedral of Santa Fe

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

A soldier's sketch of Santa Fe, c. 1846–1850

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

Caravan waggons of the Santa Fe Trail in the plaza

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The pastoral look of life in Santa Fe

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The Plaza of La Mesilla, c. 1860s

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The Plaza of Santa Fe, c. 1870s

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The carved eighteenth-century stone reredos of Santa Fe

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The chapel of Our Lady of Light

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

Lamy's country retreat, Villa Pintoresca—
exterior

[
Loretto Motherhouse Archives, Kentucky
]

Villa Pintoresca—the chapel

[
Loretto Motherhouse Archives, Kentucky
]

The stone cathedral of St Francis under construction

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The completed cathedral as it stands today