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Article: THE SAINT IN SANTA FE; A VISION OF SIMPLICITY.(Bienvenidos)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2009
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Byline: GREGORY PLESHAW
Ever wonder why, in a city called Santa Fe, the image of St. Francis of Assisi is everywhere?
In 1610, when Don Pedro de Peralta founded the city of Santa Fe under the direction of the Viceroy of Spain, he gave it an official name -- La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis, or The Royal City of the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi.
This lengthy moniker (perhaps the longest for a U.S. city), would forever forge an inseparable bond between Santa Fe and its patron saint -- a wealthy gadabout who converted and became one of Christendom's most beloved figures.
The Very Rev. Msgr. Jerome Martinez y ...