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...Bishop of Durango?" added Maria de Allande...
...missionary sighed. "Your Eminence, the Bishop of Durango is an old man; and from his seat to Santa Fe is a distance of 1,500 English miles. There are no wagon roads, no canals, no navigable rivers. Trade is carried on by means of pack-mules, over treacherous trails. . . . The Vicariate of New Mexico will be in a few years raised to an Episcopal See, with jurisdiction over a country larger than Central and Western Europe, barring Russia. The Bishop of that See will direct the. beginning of momentous things...
Indeed momentous were the beginnings made by the missionary of whom Author Gather wrote, Father John B. Lamy. He became Santa Fe's first bishop (in 1875 its first archbishop), mightily revived Catholicism's failing strength in the Southwest. Unlike the Bishop of Durango, he did not neglect the outlying parts of his jurisdiction. To Colorado in 1860 he sent another famed pioneer Catholic, Father Joseph P. Macheboeuf, first Bishop of Denver when it was still a village...
This all's-well fiction continued to crumble as reports, vigorously denied by Cárdenas spokesmen, poured in from the provinces. Four men were killed in a skirmish in the northern state of Durango. A train was reported held up near Almazán's Monterrey stronghold. Armed men boarded a ship in Veracruz, seized stores of frozen meat from Argentina. A hurried visit to the capital by the military commander of Chiapas started a flood of rumors that trouble was brewing in the south...
...Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping out of the autonomous Basque Republic of Euzkadi, ally of Leftist Spain. The nearest front nowadays will be 150 miles away...