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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 ]
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.
Feb. 4—Six thousand people filled the Cathedral of St. Francis the morning of Feb. 16, 1888 for a four-hour funeral service. The Mass honored Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy, who had died of ...
Later on, a spur line was built from Lamy to Santa Fe, bringing the railroad to Santa Fe at last. In 1896 the Fred Harvey Company built the luxurious El Ortiz Hotel here, and was designed by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter. [12] Thus Lamy became an important railroad junction. The El Ortiz Hotel was then later demolished after its closing in 1947. [13]
Before his appointment in Santa Fe, Lamy had been assigned to Danville, Ohio in 1839 after accompanying John Baptist Purcell to the United States from southern France. [16] Jean Lamy played a crucial role in the establishment of the Archdiocese Santa Fe. Named its bishop, Jean Lamy had traveled and eventually arrived in Santa Fe in the summer ...
They came from Santa Fe, Taos, and Socorro, but also from towns like Cuba, Cedar Crest, Placitas, Dixon, Abiquiú, and El Rito. The New Mexico Potters' Association — renamed in 2004 to New ...
Jean Baptiste Lamy, a Frenchman nearly 21 years younger than Martínez, became the vicar apostolic of Santa Fe in 1851. Martínez supported Lamy until January 1854 when Lamy issued a letter instituting mandatory tithing and decreeing that heads of families that failed to tithe be denied the sacraments. Martínez publicly protested the letter ...
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.