CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON & SILENT AUCTION
DECEMBER 8, 2024
12:00 Noon - Sagebrush Convention Center

SPEAKER IS FATHER JUAN ROMERO
"HISTORY OF THE DURAN CHAPEL IN TALPA, NM"

Born in Embudo, Father Juan Romero claims Taos roots with family ties to the Duran family from the line of Nicholas Sandoval, builder of the Talpa Chapel in 1838. Ordained a priest sixty years ago, Father Juan served as pastor in a variety of parishes. From 1972 to 1976 he served as executive director of the national Mexican American priests’ association PADRES, out of Wahsington, D.C.
Father Juan has written extensively about the life of Padre Antonio Martinez, including “Reluctant Dawn: Biography of Padre Martinez.” His current work describes how the Talpa Chapel became Padre Martinez’ base of operations after his excommunication from the Church by Bishop Lamy in 1858. Father Juan currently resides in San Bernardo, California.

The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County.
Membership is open to anyone upon payment of dues.
For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Mil Gracias, A THOUSAND THANKS, does not begin to cover the many, many individuals to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. This debt is not only the living but also to those men and women who long ago began to preserve the journals and documents we now depend upon for knowledge of the past: the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers and settlers and who, dusty, tired and hungry, sat in the light of a candle to record in their journals the events of the day and the Franciscan clerics who made detailed reports of their canonical visits to the mission churches of Nuevo México.

Corina A. Santistevan
Acknowledgements in "Taos: A Topical History"