Death comes for the archbishop5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() On the trip west, he injured his leg in a wagon accident and was delayed six months.Ī year after leaving Mississippi, Bishop Latour and Father Vaillant rode in a wagon train into Santa Fe, but the parishioners would not accept the new bishop without confirmation from the Bishop of Durango, prompting Latour to make the journey to Durango. His worldly possessions, except his books, were lost in a shipwreck in Galveston harbor. He remembers his year-long trek from Cincinnati, Ohio, and a series of misadventures en route. ![]() It is an autumn afternoon in 1851, and Jean Latour is lost in the New Mexico desert.
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