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The Provincial Councils of Baltimore, which took place over several decades in the 1800s, helped Catholic priests across America unite on guiding principles and ground rules for the nation’s new churches. The seventh Provincial Council (1848) was where the Santa Fé diocese was created; the eighth Provincial Council (1855) was the first one Latour was able to attend, even though it took him almost a year round-trip to travel there from Santa Fé.
Provincial Council of Baltimore Quotes in Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Book 9: Chapter 5
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Father Latour often said that his diocese changed little except in the boundaries. The Mexicans were always Mexicans, the Indians were always Indians. Santa Fé was a quiet backwater, with no natural wealth, no importance commercially. But Father Vaillant had been plunged into the midst of a great industrial expansion, where guile and trickery and honorable ambition all struggled together; a territory that developed by leaps and bounds and then experienced ruinous reverses. Every year, even after he was crippled, he travelled thousands of miles by stage and in his carriage, among the mountain towns that were now rich, now poor and deserted.
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Provincial Council of Baltimore Term Timeline in Death Comes for the Archbishop
The timeline below shows where the term Provincial Council of Baltimore appears in Death Comes for the Archbishop. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue: At Rome
...the bishop (Father Ferrand) is Irish by birth. The stakes of this conversation are high—the Provincial Council at Baltimore wants a new vicariate in New Mexico, a chunk of territory just annexed...
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Book 2: The Lonely Road to Mora
Buck Scales was hanged after a short trial. A few months later, Latour attended the Provincial Council at Baltimore; on his way back, he brought five nuns to build a religious school...
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Book 3: The Wooden Parrot
...still only spent four months in his actual diocese. So when he returns from the Provincial Council , Latour is eager to explore his district. He hires Jacinto, a young indigenous man...
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