GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-42

St. Antonio de Padua Church
15071 North Highway 75
P.O. Box 460
Peñasco, NM 87553

Phone: 505-587-2111

 

History: San Antonio de Padua Church, Peñasco, Taos County, New Mexico, has been a diverse parish with parishioners of Native (e.g. Mestizos, Tiwa) and non-Native American ancestry in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (Archives: Santa Fe, New Mexico). Santa Fe archdiocesan priests at San Antonio have attended to San Lorenzo Mission, Picuris Pueblo, Picuris Reservation, 1879-present.

San Lorenzo Mission, Picuris Pueblo:

1600s-1726	Franciscans (Santo Evangelico Province) (Archives: Puebla, Mexico) from an unknown mission, established and attended to San Lorenzo Mission, Picuris Pueblo
1726-1820	Franciscans at St. John’s, Ohkay Owingeh/ San Juan, attended to San Lorenzo
1820-1850	Franciscans from an unknown mission attended to San Lorenzo
1850-1880s	Became a parish; Santa Fe diocesan priests administered San Lorenzo Church
1866-1878	Santa Fe arch/diocesan priests at San Lorenzo attended to San Antonio de Padua Mission, Peñasco; became a parish
1879-present	Santa Fe archdiocesan priests at San Antonio, Peñasco, have attended to San Lorenzo

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1878-ongoing

Volume: Many entries among many volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of San Antonio de Padua Church and San Lorenzo Mission.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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