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Jean-Baptiste Lamy (October 11, 1814 – February 13, 1888), was a French-American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop is based on his life and career (albeit renamed to "Jean-Marie Latour" for artistic license), as is John Horgan's nonfiction work Lamy of Santa Fe.
Lamy of Santa Fe, his life and times is a 1975 biography of Catholic Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, written by American author Paul Horgan and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for History . [ 1 ]
Archbishop Lamy. The novel is based on the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814–1888), and partially chronicles the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. The capture of the Southwest by the United States in the Mexican–American War is the catalyst for the plot.
The cathedral was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy between 1869 and 1886 on the site of an older adobe church, La Parroquia (built in 1714–1717). An older church on the same site, built in 1626, was destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. The new cathedral was built around La Parroquia, which was dismantled once the new construction was ...
The community was named for Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy, and lies within the Bishop John Lamy Spanish Land Grant, which dates back to the eighteenth century. [4] Jean-Baptiste Lamy's influence over this area includes his creation of Santa Fe's first English teaching school, as well as establishing other similar institutions.
Archbishop Lamy's Chapel, on Bishop's Lodge Rd. in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was built in 1874.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]It was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy for use as a retreat from his duties as the representative of the church.
James Lamy (1928–1992) U.S. bobsledder and Olympic competitor; Jason Lamy-Chappuis (born 1986), Franco-American Olympic skier; Jean-Baptiste Lamy (1814–1888), French Roman Catholic archbishop; Jean-Claude Lamy (born 1941), French writer and journalist; Jean Lamy, French slalom canoeist; Jehan Lamy (fl. 1540s), author of Le langaige du Bresil
Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (February 22, 1825 – July 15, 1898) was the first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe. Early life and education [ edit ]