GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
Texas: TX-59
La Purisima Church
328 South Nevarez Street
Socorro, TX 79927
Phone: 915-859-7718
Email: lapurisima@earthlink.net
History: La Pur铆sima Church, Socorro, El Paso County, Texas, has been a diverse parish with many parishioners of Native American descent (e.g. Tiwa, Mestizos) in the Diocese of El Paso (Archives: El Paso, Texas).
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1680 |
Piro, Tano, Tiwa, and Jemez Indian refugees from fled the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico and founded Ysleta (now in El Paso), Socorro, and San Elizario in El Paso County, Texas; Socorro was named after Socorro, New Mexico |
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1682-1683 |
Franciscans (formerly Santa Cruz de Queretaro; then College of Nuestra Se帽ora de Guadalupe de Zacatecas, Mexico) (Archives: Puebla, Mexico) established and administered Misi贸n de Nuestra Se帽ora de la Limpia Concepci贸n de los Piros de Socorro near Fabens, Texas |
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1683-1882 |
Franciscans relocated La Pur铆sima Mission to Socorro and continued its administration |
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1766 |
Flooding of the Rio Grande shifted its course and placed the Ysleta, Socorro, and San Elizario pueblos on the present-day U.S. side of the border |
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By 1766 |
La Pur铆sima became known as La Pur铆sima Concepci贸n del Socorro Mission |
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1829, 1840 |
Floods twice destroyed La Pur铆sima, which was twice rebuilt |
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1882-1979 |
Jesuits (Naples, New Orleans Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) administered La Pur铆sima |
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1979-present |
El Paso diocesan priests have administered La Pur铆sima |
Franciscans from La Pur铆sima attended the following missions serving Native American and people of Native descent:
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1852-1874 |
Corpus Christi de la Ysleta Mission (Tiwa), Ysleta |
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1852-1850s |
San Elizario Mission (Tiwa, Mestizos), San Elizario |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1832-ongoing
Volume: Many records within numerous volumes
Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for parishioners of Native American descent of La Pur铆sima, Corpus Christi, and San Elizario missions.
Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the 向日葵视频 Archives.
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