The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart Mission, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1, Tuesday, August 1, 1905 Page: 4 of 32
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE
Do our Eastern non-Catholics in fact do we ourselves
ever think where are the finest and where were the first
churches built in America from the Atlantic to the Pacific?
Let Mr. Lummis refer us to the West. "There are thousands
of Catholic temples along a 6ooo-mile stretch of which
more than 50 per cent are more striking than any church
buildings 111 the United States An expert who figured it for
me said that one built by Junipero Serra that at San Juan
Capistrano Cal. could not be replaced for $100000 to-day
and it is a poor little hut compared with hundreds of mag-
nificant structures from Chihuahua down to the middle' of
Chile.
Alonso de Benavides says that when he came in as
Custodio there were 250 Spaniards in Santa Fe and 'the
principal thing was lacking which was a church.' He set to
work in 1622 to build the Parroquia a part of which is in-
corporated in the present Cathedral. He said the missionaries
first built churches for the Indians whom they were trying
to convert and that Santa Fe had to wait. There were then
eleven churches Yes three years before Plymouth Rock there
were eleven chut'ches in New Mexico all in Indian pueblos. The
Fathers had gone 300 mileh across the mountains to Zuni and
built a big church there; apd nindty or on? hundred miles to
Moqui and built therej I want to call attention to the fact
that it was not a call to unfashionable piijpjt.; The pay of
those missionaries was $1.50 dollars a year afterward raised
to $330 payable every three years; and their fare from
Mexico; ; (which meant the. privilege of trudging along the
King's road Under the protection' '6f the caravan) was $266
which lejt the Fathers 'out something like a year's salary.
Kdo not think"! need to draw out to you a picture of what
one of those men facqdj when he got from Mexico to New
Mexico say in 1608-10 when the gieat tide of work
bogan. ' I j lit
Th0 first mis'sibnars came with Coronado but the first
permanent ones in 159$ with Onate. It you will imagine
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