Memoirs: History of Seminary of Montezuma (New Mexico, for Mexican Priesthood) Writings of John Mark Gannon ~SIGNED by Msgr James M Powers

Title: Memoirs : The Seminary of Montezuma: Documents and Writings of Most Reverend John Mark Gannon, Chairman of The Bishop's Committee for Montezuma Seminary and His Episcopal Associates

Author: The Very Reverend Monsignor James M. Powers, LL.D. / [With a Foreword by Archbishop of Laodicea Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the Untied States]

Description: Association copy, inscribed by Monsignor Powers on front free endpaper. Boards in orange-red cloth with gilt title on spine and the school's coat-of-arms in gilt on the front cover. Very mild wear; bottom corners slightly bumped. Interior is clean. Fifteen illustrations (mostly photographs on plates). xiii + 225 pages.

The inscription reads: ''Presented to James T. / Benton. K.S.G. with sentiments / of friendship and esteem. / Monsignor Powers / Oct. 14 th. 1953.'' There is a photograph (opposite p. 218) showing James T. Benton and the author meeting the rector of the seminary, Father Pablo Lopez de Lara, and his assistant.

A history of Montezuma Seminary, the Jesuit training ground for Mexican aspirants to the priesthood, chronicled primarily through a collection of documents, letters, and official reports pertaining to the purchase, rehabilitation and administration of the seminary.

Montezuma Seminary was located near Las Vegas, New Mexico and was founded in 1936 by the United States Bishops and the work of the Bishop's Committee with Bishop John Mark Gannon as chairman. Its founding was instigated as a result of the repercussions of the Cristero War in Mexico and the anticlerical policies of the Mexican government. The seminary closed in 1972, after the issues with the Mexican government had been resolved. Of the nearly three thousand students who attended over the years, a little over a thousand were ordained priests.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: [Printed by Mack Publishing Co., Easton, Pa.]
Place: Erie, Pennsylvania
Year: 1953

Keywords: Seminario de Montezuma, history, John Mark Gannon, Catholic, seminaries, Southwest, Mexico, Cristero War, association copy,