Padre martinez biography

New Mexican präst, educator, publisher, rancher, farmer, community leader, and politician

For other uses, see Antonio José.

Antonio José Martínez (January 17, &#; July 27, ) was a New Mexicanpriest, educator, publisher, rancher, farmer, community leader, and politician. He lived through and influenced three distinct periods of New Mexico's history: the Spanish period, the Mexican period, and the Americanoccupation and subsequent territorial period. Martínez appears as a character in Willa Cather's novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop.

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Padre Martínez, Not Just a Priest 

As the priest at Taos in the s, Padre Antonio José Martínez  played a pivotal role in the New Mexico government’s attempt to keep discontent at bay. He was especially active in /38, working against the revolt that is the subject of my forthcoming biographical novel, There Will Be Consequences.

The rebellion centered in Santa Cruz de la Cañada, about fifty miles south of Taos, but after its initial suppression in September , many of the revolutionaries seem to have headed north to Taos.

Antonio José had grown up in the Taos area, the oldest of six children from the wealthy Martín-Santistéban family. The fortress-like home his parents built outside town still stands as a monument to their status. Although he was well educated, his family had apparently not planned for Antonio José to enter the priesthood. He married María de la Luz Martín of Abiquiu in May , in a joint ceremony with her brother José Manuel and Antonio José’s sister Juana Ma

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[Fr. Juan Romero was born in Taos, ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in In , he authored RELUCTANT DAWN, a biography of Padre Martinez. A second edition was published in upon the installation of the memorial in honor of the Cura de Taos at the Taos Plaza. Romero maintains a blog about the Padre <>, is retired from administration, and still helps at parishes in the Palm Springs area where he resides.]

THE TAOS NEWS

  In local folklore, Padre Martinez is considered the founder of the Taos News. Since boyhood, Padre Martínez had grown up in Taos. He was ordained a priest at Durango in and returned to Taos for a new assignment as priest in-charge of San Geronimo parish based at the Pueblo. The parish included several mission churches, among them NuestraSeñoradeGuadalupe at the Plaza. One of the first things the Padre did as priest-in-charge was to establish a school for girls as well as for boys at his home near the church. Education was