A New Basilica
Santa Fe's great church is now a basilica: St. Francis Cathedral receives more prestigious name.
This was one of the many beautiful New Mexican churches we visited on our trip across the Southwest last year*. The story of the building of the St. Francis Cathedral is told in Willa Cather's semi-fictional Death Comes for the Archbishop. The cathedral's altar screen has beautiful icons of saints from the Americas, from Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton to Saint Rose of Lima.
* For an account of this trip, read our Impressions of the Southwest (you'll have to scroll down).
Santa Fe's great church is now a basilica: St. Francis Cathedral receives more prestigious name.
This was one of the many beautiful New Mexican churches we visited on our trip across the Southwest last year*. The story of the building of the St. Francis Cathedral is told in Willa Cather's semi-fictional Death Comes for the Archbishop. The cathedral's altar screen has beautiful icons of saints from the Americas, from Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton to Saint Rose of Lima.
* For an account of this trip, read our Impressions of the Southwest (you'll have to scroll down).
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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