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Book The Saint of Santa Fe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sirias, Silvio
  • Publisher : Anaphora Literary Press
  • Release : 2015-03-12
  • ISBN : 1681140446
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Saint of Santa Fe written by Sirias, Silvio and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, a young, recently ordained Colombian priest leaves behind everything to start a new parish in the jungles of Panama. Father Héctor Gallego soon discovers that his parishioners live as indentured servants. Inspired by liberation theology, he sets into motion a plan to liberate them. Father Gallegos is successful, but his work places him on a collision course with General Omar Torrijos, the nation’s absolute ruler. On January 9, 1971, military operatives abduct the priest. He is never seen or heard from again, but he remains very much alive in the minds of Panamanians who, still today, clamor for his case to be brought to justice. Although The Saint of Santa Fe is a work of fiction, the novel is based on the real-life experiences of Héctor Gallego and the campesinos who worked alongside him to create a just society. This sweeping novel tells many stories, including that of Edilma, the priest’s sister who since age eleven has been searching for the meaning of his death. The Saint of Santa Fe is a story of faith, heroism, and sacrifice that’s reminiscent of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and Miguel de Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, mártir.

Book Lamy of Santa Fe

Download or read book Lamy of Santa Fe written by Paul Horgan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1976). The extraordinary biography of a pioneer hero of the frontier Southwest from the author of Great River. Originally published in 1975, this Pulitzer Prize for History–winning biography chronicles the life of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814–1888), New Mexico’s first resident bishop and the most influential, reform-minded Catholic official in the region during the late 1800s. Lamy’s accomplishments, including the endowing of hospitals, orphanages, and English-language schools and colleges, formed the foundation of modern-day Santa Fe and often brought him into conflict with corrupt local priests. His life story, also the subject of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, describes a pivotal period in the American Southwest, as Spanish and Mexican rule gave way to much greater influence from the United States and Europe. Historian and consummate stylist Paul Horgan has given us a chronicle filled with hardy, often extraordinary adventure, and sustained by Lamy’s magnificent strength of character. “Lamy of Santa Fe stands as a beacon in American biography.” —James M. Day, author of Paul Horgan “Lamy of Santa Fe is a classic work. Not only is the research exemplary but so is the narrative artistry, the work of history as art.” —Robert Gish, author of Nueva Granada: Paul Horgan and the Modern Southwest “Historians, and general readers as well, seeking vivid portrayal of the Southwest’s political, social and cultural traditions will find [this book] rewarding . . . the historical and literary heritage of Americans in general will be the richer for Mr. Horgan’s painstaking effort.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Book The Saint of Santa Fe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Silvio Sirias
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-17
  • ISBN : 9781681141411
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Saint of Santa Fe written by Silvio Sirias and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saint of Santa Fe: In 1968, a young, recently ordained Colombian priest leaves behind everything to start a new parish in the jungles of Panama. Father Hector Gallego soon discovers that his parishioners live as indentured servants. Inspired by liberation theology, he sets into motion a plan to liberate them. Father Gallegos is successful, but his work places him on a collision course with General Omar Torrijos, the nation's absolute ruler. On January 9, 1971, military operatives abduct the priest. He is never seen or heard from again, but he remains very much alive in the minds of Panamanians who, still today, clamor for his case to be brought to justice. Although The Saint of Santa Fe is a work of fiction, the novel is based on the real-life experiences of Hector Gallego and the campesinos who worked alongside him to create a just society. This sweeping novel tells many stories, including that of Edilma, the priest's sister who since age eleven has been searching for the meaning of his death. The Saint of Santa Fe is a story of faith, heroism, and sacrifice that's reminiscent of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory and Miguel de Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, martir."

Book The Book of Sainte Foy

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  • Author : Pamela Sheingorn
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2010-08-03
  • ISBN : 0812200527
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book The Book of Sainte Foy written by Pamela Sheingorn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The miracle stories surrounding Sainte Foy form one of the most complete sets of material relating to a medieval saint's cult and its practices. Pamela Sheingorn's superb translation from the Medieval Latin texts now makes this literature available in English. The Book of Sainte Foy recounts the virgin saint's martyrdom in the third century (Passio), the theft of her relics in the late ninth century by the monks of the monastery at Conques (Translatio), and her diverse miracles (Liber miraculorum); also included is a rendering of the Provençal Chanson de Sainte Foy, translated by Robert L. A. Clark. The miracles distinguish Sainte Foy as an unusual and highly individualistic child saint displaying a fondness for gold and pretty things, as well as a penchant for playing practical jokes on her worshippers. In his record of Sainte Foy, Bernard of Angers, the eleventh-century author of the first parts of the Liber miraculorum, emphasized the saint's "unheard of" miracles, such as replacing missing body parts and bringing dead animals back to life. The introduction to the volume situates Sainte Foy in the history in the history of hagiography and places the saint and her monastery in the social context of the high Middle Ages. Sheingorn also evokes the rugged landscape of south central France, the picturesque village of Conques on the pilgrimage road, and, most important, the golden, jewel-encrusted reliquary statue that medieval believers saw as the embodiment of Sainte Foy's miracle-working power. In no other book will readers enjoy such a comprehensive portrait of Sainte Foy and the culture that nurtured her.

Book Santa Fe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth West
  • Publisher : Sunstone Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0865348766
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Santa Fe written by Elizabeth West and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This question-and-answer book contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than 400 years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation.

Book Symbol and Conquest

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  • Author : Ronald L. Grimes
  • Publisher : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Symbol and Conquest written by Ronald L. Grimes and published by Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the work originally published by Cornell University Press in 1976. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Christmas in Old Santa Fe

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  • Author : Pedro Ribera Ortega
  • Publisher : Sunstone Press
  • Release : 2012-09-15
  • ISBN : 1611391334
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book Christmas in Old Santa Fe written by Pedro Ribera Ortega and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightly falling snow, covering everything in sight with a soft mantle of white, burning luminarias and mellow-light farolitos, the warm adobe architecture, the peace and quiet that settles over the land on Christmas Eve, all tend to strengthen the comparison between Santa Fe and the land where Christ was born. At no time of year is it more apparent that Santa Fe, New Mexico is a foreign city still relying on the traditions of the past. Pedro Ribera Ortega’s richly descriptive book gives all the details, including the difference between luminarias and farolitos, in case you have lived in Santa Fe all your life and still do not know the difference.

Book The Santa Fe Opera Presents a Concert of Music on Sacred Themes

Download or read book The Santa Fe Opera Presents a Concert of Music on Sacred Themes written by Santa Fe Opera and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At the End of the Santa Fe Trail

Download or read book At the End of the Santa Fe Trail written by Sister Blandina Segale and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the End of the Santa Fe Trail, first published in 1932 (and reprinted in 1948), is Sister Blandina Segale's account of her life in the southwestern U.S. from 1872 to 1892. Sister Blandina (1850-1941), born in Italy and emigrating with her family to Cincinnati when she was a child, worked with the poor, the sick, immigrants, prisoners, and Native Americans while in Trinidad, Colorado, and in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico (and later in Ohio). The book is based in large part on her journal and on the letters she exchanged with her sister Justina, who was also a religious sister in Ohio. At a time when lawlessness and brutality were the norm, Sister Blandina displayed courage, tough-mindedness, and a deep religious faith in service to the less-fortunate. Recent efforts have been made by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe to have Sister Blandina made a saint.

Book The Centuries of Santa Fe

Download or read book The Centuries of Santa Fe written by Paul Horgan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of scenes and portraits from three centuries of Santa Fe society, from early Spanish colonial times to the present century.

Book Death Comes for the Archbishop

Download or read book Death Comes for the Archbishop written by Willa Cather and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seeds of Struggle harvest of Faith

Download or read book Seeds of Struggle harvest of Faith written by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Catholic Cuarto Centennial Conference and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of religion in New Mexico is manifest in this collection of essays that represents the work of twenty-three of the region's most noted scholars and writers. Among the topics they cover are church architecture, the role of missionaries in colonization, the role of the church in education, the contributions of the Penitentes, and the work of specific orders, particularly the Jesuits and the Franciscans. Local devotion to such figures as St. Michael, La Guadalupana, La Conquistadora, and Nuestra Senora de Belen is addressed, as well as the work of such historic leaders as Padre Martinez and Archbishop Lamy. In addition to its importance for historians, this book will be of interest to genealogists. It includes an essay on sacramental records and the preservation of New Mexico family genealogies from the colonial era to the present.

Book The Dialogue

Download or read book The Dialogue written by Saint Catherine (of Siena) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), mystic and Doctor of the Church, wrote The Dialogue, her crowning spiritual work, for "the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern."

Book Santa Fe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob Dean
  • Publisher : Sunstone Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0865347956
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Santa Fe written by Rob Dean and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeline of American history has always swept through Santa Fe, New Mexico. Settled by ancient peoples, explored by conquistadors, conquered by the U.S. cavalry, Santa Fe owns a story that stretches from the talking drums of the Pueblos to the high math of complexity theory pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute. This fresh presentation, 400 years after the Spanish founded the town in 1610, presents the full arc of Santa Fe's story that sifts through its long, complex, thrilling history. From the moment of first contact between the explorers and the native peoples, Santa Fe became a crossroads, a place of accommodations and clashes. Faith defined, sustained, and liberated the people. All the while, scoundrels and abusers of power elbowed their way into civic life. And who should piece together that story of the country's oldest capital city? The Santa Fe New Mexican, the oldest newspaper in the American West, walking side by side with the people of Santa Fe for 160 years-a long life by the standards of publishing though merely a short span in Santa Fe's timeless drama. This book was compiled from a series that appeared monthly in "The Santa Fe New Mexican" in honor of the city's 400th anniversary commemoration in 2010. It illuminates Santa Fe's enduring promise to cling to roots that are bottomless and to leap into a future that is boundless. Over 400 pages, many illustrations, timelines, index, and detailed bibliographies. Included is a Study Guide for teachers, students, and anyone interested in Santa Fe and the American Southwest.

Book Saints   Seasons

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  • Author : Nasario García
  • Publisher : La Herencia
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Saints Seasons written by Nasario García and published by La Herencia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Santa Fe Cathedral of St  Francis of Assisi

Download or read book The Santa Fe Cathedral of St Francis of Assisi written by Angelico Chavez and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saint Francis Murals of Santa Fe

Download or read book The Saint Francis Murals of Santa Fe written by Carl D. Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the commission and the painting of the murals in the Saint Francis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe.