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

[Museum of New Mexico]

following page 280

PORTRAITS OF LAMY AND OTHERS

The young Bishop Lamy of Santa Fe

[Loretto Motherhouse Archives, Kentucky]

Marie Lamy

[Loretto Motherhouse Archives, Kentucky]

Mother M. Francesca Lamy

[from “Light in Yucca Land,” Barbour and Jaeger, Santa Fe, 1952]

Colonel Kit Carson

[Museum of New Mexico]

Bishop Joseph Priest Machebeuf of Denver

[Colorado State Historical Society]

The aged and ailing Archbishop Lamy

[Loretto Motherhouse Archives, Kentucky]

Archbishop Lamy lying in state

[Courtesy of John Gaw Meem]

Lamy’s statue in Santa Fe

[Photo by David Young]

Note: Many of these photographs came from Miss Isabel Echols, who received custody of them from the estate of E. Dana Johnson, the distinguished editor of The Santa Fe New Mexican.

 

Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini

 

image