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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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- He is a parish priest, on the shores of Lake Ontario, in my diocese.†
Part Prol. *
- They were much more to his taste than the factory-made plaster images in his mission churches in Ohio—more like the homely stone carvings on the front of old parish churches in Auvergne.†
Part 1
- He was not troubled about the revolt in Santa Fé, or the powerful old native priest who led it—Father Martínez, of Taos, who had ridden over from his parish expressly to receive the new Vicar and to drive him away.†
Part 1
- Father Vaillant had taken possession of the priest's house, and with the help of carpenters and the Mexican women of the parish had put it in order.†
Part 1
- "And yet sometimes you used to chafe a little at your dear Sandusky and its comforts," the Bishop reminded him—"to say that you would end a home-staying parish priest, after all."†
Part 1
- After all, a Bishop was a Bishop, and a Vicar was a Vicar, and it was not to their discredit that they worked like a pair of common parish priests.†
Part 2
- After Santa Fé, Albuquerque was the most important parish in the diocese; the priest belonged to an influential Mexican family, and he and the rancheros had run their church to suit themselves, making a very gay affair of it.†
Part 3
- THE NIGHT AT PECOS A month after the Bishop's visit to Albuquerque and Acoma, the genial Father Gallegos was formally suspended, and Father Vaillant himself took charge of the parish.†
Part 4
- Father Vaillant wrote to his sister Philomène, in France, that the temper of his parish was like that of a boys' school; under one master the lads try to excel one another in mischief and disobedience, under another they vie with each other in acts of loyalty.†
Part 4
- Though Father Vaillant had all the duties of a parish priest at Albuquerque, he was still Vicar General, and in February the Bishop dispatched him on urgent business to Las Vegas.†
Part 4
- THE OLD ORDER Bishop Latour, with Jacinto, was riding through the mountains on his first official visit to Taos—after Albuquerque, the largest and richest parish in his diocese.†
Part 5
- The Bishop had let the parish alone, giving their animosity plenty of time to cool.†
Part 5
- Indeed, before Father Latour's entrance upon the scene, Martínez had been dictator to all the parishes in northern New Mexico, and the native priests at Santa Fé were all of them under his thumb.†
Part 5
- Martínez now cultivated their fertile farms, which made him quite the richest man in the parish.†
Part 5
- To this eloquence the Bishop returned blandly that he had not come to deprive the people of their religion, but that he would be compelled to deprive some of the priests of their parishes if they did not change their way of life.†
Part 5
- He will never hold a parish in my diocese.†
Part 5
- High Mass was at eleven the next morning, the parish priest officiating and the Bishop in the Episcopal chair.†
Part 5
- After his marriage he had learned to read from the parish priest, and when he became a widower he decided to study for the priesthood.†
Part 5
- After six years at the Seminary, Martínez had returned to his native Abiquiu as priest of the parish church there.†
Part 5
- I do not wish to lose the parish of Taos in order to punish its priest, my friend.†
Part 5
- A year from now I shall be in Rome, and there I hope to get a Spanish missionary who will take over the parish of Taos.†
Part 5
- At the Bishop's suggestion, Padre Martínez formally resigned his parish, with the understanding that he was still to celebrate Mass upon solemn occasions.†
Part 5
- Ever since they were young men with adjoining parishes, they had been friends, cronies, rivals, sometimes bitter enemies.†
Part 5
- Father Martínez told with delight how Trinidad sponged upon the parish at Arroyo Hondo, and went about poking his nose into one bean-pot after another.†
Part 5
- A great sum for one old priest to have scraped together in a country parish down at the bottom of a ditch.†
Part 5
- The authorities at Rome notified Father Latour that this new territory was to be annexed to his diocese, but that as the national boundary lines often cut parishes in two, the boundaries of Church jurisdiction must be settled by conference with the Mexican Bishops of Chihuahua and Sonora.†
Part 7
- —and she rejoiced no less than he that his May devotions were so largely attended, especially by the young people of the parish, in whom a notable increase of piety was manifest.†
Part 7
- He attended to his correspondence, went on his rounds among the parish priests, held services at missions that were without pastors, superintended the building of the addition to the Sisters' school: but his heart was not in these things.†
Part 7
- There had been much whispering among the devout women of the parish about her pitiful case.†
Part 7
- Although Jean Marie Latour and Joseph Vaillant were born in neighbouring parishes in the Puy-de-Dôme, as children they had not known each other.†
Part 7
- The Bishop had often been embarrassed by his Vicar's persistence in begging for the parish, for the Cathedral fund and the distant missions.†
Part 7
- That was the hour when he could most conveniently entertain a priest from one of the distant parishes, an army officer, an American trader, a visitor from Old Mexico or California.†
Part 8
- Bishop Latour also was very busy at this time, training a new priest from Clermont; riding about with him among the distant parishes and trying to give him an understanding of the people.†
Part 8
- The bustle of preparation in his own house was painful to him, and he was glad to be abroad among the parishes.†
Part 8
- If he were a parish priest at home, there would be nephews coming to him for help in their Latin or a bit of pocketmoney; nieces to run into his garden and bring their sewing and keep an eye on his housekeeping.†
Part 8
- But he always said that if Jean Latour had not supported him in that hour of torment, he would have been a parish priest in the Puy-de-Dôme for the rest of his life.†
Part 9
Definitions:
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(1)
(parish) a local church community
or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)