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Saint Francis Cathedral - Santa Fe, New Mexico
My wife and I just returned from our vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We stayed in Santa Fe as our base but ventured all over Northern New Mexico including the Sangre De Cristo mountains, Española, Chimayó, Tierra Amarillo, Chama and Peñasco.
A whole lot of New Mexico coming your way in the next few days...
The above photo is the St. Francis Cathedral. The cathedral was built by Jean Baptiste Lamy, the first archbishop of Santa Fe. You may have heard of Archbishop Lamy. He was immortalized in Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Death Comes for the Archbishop.
On the site where St. Frances Cathedral stands today there was originally a small mission church. That mission was burned down in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. After the Spanish regained control in 1692, a more substantial adobe church, La Parroquia, was built on this site. That church served for almost 200 years.
Finally, in 1884, La Parroquia was replaced by St. Frances Cathedral on which construction had started in 1869.
Saint Francis Cathedral - Santa Fe, New Mexico
My wife and I just returned from our vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We stayed in Santa Fe as our base but ventured all over Northern New Mexico including the Sangre De Cristo mountains, Española, Chimayó, Tierra Amarillo, Chama and Peñasco.
A whole lot of New Mexico coming your way in the next few days...
The above photo is the St. Francis Cathedral. The cathedral was built by Jean Baptiste Lamy, the first archbishop of Santa Fe. You may have heard of Archbishop Lamy. He was immortalized in Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Death Comes for the Archbishop.
On the site where St. Frances Cathedral stands today there was originally a small mission church. That mission was burned down in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. After the Spanish regained control in 1692, a more substantial adobe church, La Parroquia, was built on this site. That church served for almost 200 years.
Finally, in 1884, La Parroquia was replaced by St. Frances Cathedral on which construction had started in 1869.