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 Purísima 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 Señora de Guadalupe de Zacatecas, Mexico) (Archives: Puebla, Mexico) established and administered Misión de Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción de los Piros de Socorro near Fabens, Texas |
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1683-1882 |
Franciscans relocated La Purísima 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 Purísima became known as La Purísima Concepción del Socorro Mission |
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1829, 1840 |
Floods twice destroyed La Purísima, which was twice rebuilt |
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1882-1979 |
Jesuits (Naples, New Orleans Provinces) (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri) administered La Purísima |
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1979-present |
El Paso diocesan priests have administered La Purísima |
Franciscans from La Purísima 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 Purísima, 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 Marquette University Archives.
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