1. Angelico Chavez was a 12th-generation New Mexican, whose family had been in the area since the first Spanish settlement of 1598.
14 Facts About Angelico Chavez
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In 1924, at the age of 14, Angelico Chavez was admitted to St Francis Seminary in Mount Healthy, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.
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Angelico Chavez began writing fiction, essays, and other works at this time, several of which were published in the Brown and White, the student magazine he later edited.
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Angelico Chavez continued his studies at Duns Scotus College in Detroit, graduating in 1933.
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Angelico Chavez studied for four more years before being ordained in 1937 at Saint Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe, the first native New Mexican Franciscan priest.
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Angelico Chavez was assigned to the parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Pena Blanca and its missions in Jemez Pueblo and Los Cerrillos.
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Angelico Chavez was his own model for the figure of Pontius Pilate, and used locals and three of his sisters as figure models.
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Angelico Chavez ministered to the local Indians of San Felipe Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo, and the Pueblo of Cochiti.
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Angelico Chavez was present for the beach landings of Guam and Leyte.
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Angelico Chavez continued his military service during the Korean War as chaplain at Fort Bliss, Texas, and Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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Angelico Chavez wrote the definitive work on the families of New Mexico, as well as many other works of history, some of which is considered revisionist.
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Angelico Chavez returned to the priesthood and the Franciscan Order in 1989 and lived at the friary at the Cathedral in Santa Fe.
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Angelico Chavez died on March 18,1996, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 85.
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Angelico Chavez was buried in Rosario Cemetery, having earlier refused burial in St Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe.