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The Penitente Moradas of Abiquiú

Note 19 — The History of Abiquiú

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Domínguez, Missions, pp. 121 (ftn. 1), 200.

[20] AASF, Patentes, 1700, forbids friars to buy genízaros even under the excuse of Christianizing them since the result would likely be morally dangerous.

[21] H. H. Bancroft, History of Arizona and New Mexico (San Francisco, 1889), p. 258.

[22] Domínguez, Missions, p. 336.

[23] AASF, Loose Documents, Mission, 1782, no. 7.

[24] Domínguez, Missions, p. 122.

[25] Ibid., p. 123.

[26] Bancroft, p. 279.

[27] AASF, Loose Documents, Mission, 1795, no. 13.

[28] Ibid., 1796, nos. 6, 7.

[29] Ibid., 1802, no. 18.

[30] Ibid., 1820, nos. 15, 21, 38; also R. E. Twitchell, The Spanish Archives of New Mexico (Cedar Rapids, 1914), vol. 2, pp. 630, 631.

[31] AASF, Loose Documents, Mission, 1820, nos. 12, 21.

[32] Ibid., 1826, no. 7.

[33] Don Antonio was less than eager to accept his first post; he had to be ordered to report to duty (AASF, Accounts, book lxvi [box 6], April 27, 1826).

[34] AASF, Patentes, 1831, book lxx, box 4, p. 25.

[35] Ibid., book lxxiii, box 7.

[36] AASF, Accounts, book lxii, box 5.

[37] AASF, Loose Documents, Diocesan, 1853, no. 17, for Santuario and Cochiti; other rule books document penitente chapters at Chimayo, El Rito, and Taos.

[38] Jean B. Salpointe, Soldiers of the Cross (Banning, Calif., 1898).

[39] AASF, Loose Documents, Diocesan, 1856, no. 12.

[40] Twitchell, pp. 533-534.

[41] Bancroft, p. 665.

[42] Twitchell, p. 447.

[43] Ibid., p. 449, from P. B. Pino, Notícias históricas (Méjico, 1848); and Ninth U.S. Census (1870). The later figure may represent only the town proper; earlier statistics generally included outlying settlements.

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