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Summer, 2005
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Wake for a Fat Vicar: Father Juan Felipe Ortiz, Archbishop Lamy, and the New Mexican Catholic Church in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. By Fray Angélico Chávez and Thomas E. Chávez. (Albuquerque: LPD Press, 2004. 217 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95.)
      Wake for a Fat Vicar tells the story of Fr. Juan Felipe Ortiz and his jurisdictional disputes with Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy and Lamy's vicar, Joseph Michebeuf. Chávez and Chávez seek to overturn the standard interpretation of Ortiz as an obstinate and corrupt man who selfishly resisted losing his leadership post among Catholics in New Mexico. More than a biography, this book is a rejoinder to the Anglo-centric historiography that commonly portrays mid-nineteenth-century New Mexican Catholics as hopelessly superstitious and ignorant. . . .
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