Research Catalog

Title

Penitente self-government : brotherhoods and councils, 1797-1947 / by Thomas J. Steele and Rowena A. Rivera.

Author

Steele, Thomas J.

Publication

Santa Fe : Ancient City Press, 1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rivera, Rowena A.

Description

204 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

A major new work on the Penitente Brotherhood in New Mexico and Colorado, Penitente Self-Government is based on many documents only recently available. Steele and Rivera have excerpted and translated passages from some fifty Spanish-language documents in writing this history of how independent and often isolated village Penitente chapters, or moradas, first came not being around 1800 and began to organize themselves into districts and later regional associations until officially recognized by the Catholic Church in 1947. In tracing this development, the authors provide new insights into clergy like Archbishops Lamy and Salpointe, Padre Martínez of Taos, and the Presbyterian Rev. Alexander Darley of southern Colorado. They also give bibliographical details on numerous Brotherhood officers, notably Bernardo Abeyta, builder of the famous Santuario of Chimayó, and Miguel Archibeque, who was instrumental in effecting the 1947 reconciliation with Archbishop Byrne, Translations of twelve documents--from Cochití, Taos, Truchas, Canjilón, Ensenda, Abiquiú, Hernández, and Lyden--follow the history. Appendices include discussions of Penitente geography, liturgy, initiation rites, prayer, rituals, and symbols.

Subject

• Hermanos Penitentes > History
• Hermanos Penitentes
• Geschichte 1797-1947
• Brotherhood movement
• New Mexico > Church history
• Colorado > Church history
• Colorado
• New Mexico

Genre/Form

• Church history.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN

• 0941270289
• 9780941270281
• 0941270297
• 9780941270298

LCCN

85071320

OCLC

• ocm13207965
• 13207965
• SCSB-1157925

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library