GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
New Mexico: NM-11

Our Lady of Sorrows Church
301 Camino del Pueblo
P.O. Box 607
Bernalillo, NM 87004

Phone: 505-867-5252

 

History: Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Bernalillo, Sandoval County, New Mexico, has been a diverse parish with parishioners of Native (e.g. Genízaro, Mestizos, Tiwa) and non-Native American ancestry in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (Archives: Santa Fe, New Mexico).

1598-1680 (closed)

Franciscans (Santo Evangelico Province) (Archives: Puebla, Mexico) established and administered Our Lady of Sorrows/ Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de Sandiá Mission (Tiwa), Sandiá Pueblo

1699

Franciscans relocated Our Lady of Sorrows to Bernalillo

Ca. 1722-1850s

Franciscans administered Our Lady of Sorrows

1850s

Santa Fe archdiocesan priests at San Antonio, Sandia Pueblo, attended to Our Lady of Sorrows

1858-present

Became a parish; Santa Fe archdiocesan priests have administered Our Lady of Sorrows Church

1887-1936 (closed)

Sisters of Loretto (Archives: Nerinx, Kentucky) established and administered the Sisters of Loretto School (e.g. Tiwa), Bernalillo

Franciscans and Santa Fe archdiocesan priests at Our Lady of Sorrows attended San Antonio Mission, Sandia Pueblo, Sandoval and Bernalillo Counties, New Mexico:

Ca. 1722-ca. 1850s

Franciscans (Santo Evangelico Province) (Archives: Puebla, Mexico) at Our Lady of Sorrows, Bernalillo, established and attended to San Antonio Mission (Tiwa), Sandiá Pueblo

1850s-1860

Santa Fe diocesan priests administered San Antonio

1856-1860

Santa Fe archdiocesan priests at San Antonio attended to Santa Anna Mission (Jemez), Jemez Pueblo

1860-present

Santa Fe arch/diocesan priests at Our Lady of Sorrows, Bernalillo, have attended to San Antonio

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1895-ongoing

Volume: Several entries within at least 2 cubic feet

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of Our Lady of Sorrows Church and San Antonio Mission and Native American students of the Sisters of Loretto School.

 

For student attendance records -- see -- Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, Marquette University Special Collections and Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

 

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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