Miguel de Quintana begins retiring from public life and has his first conflicts with the man who replaces the chaplain killed on the Pedro Villasur expedition.
1720
Juan Mínguez doesn’t return from the Villasur campaign. His last signature in a San Ildefonso sacramental book was made in December 1719. [Archives]
1721
Carlos Delgado is in Santa Cruz for one month. Manuel de Sopeña is there for one month. José Antonio Guerrero is there for three. Angélico Chávez found no names after that until 1726. [Archives]
Josefa Sedano, sister of Antonia Sedano, sues Juan Lorenzo de Medina over a house in Santa Fé. [Twitchell]
1722
José de Quintana conveys land to Juan Lorenzo de Medina with the permission of Josefa Sedano. [Twitchell]
The issues in the case that involved Quintana’s brother aren’t obvious. None seem to have any ties with Miguel. [Comment]
Quintana witnesses a compromise over land boundaries between Miguel Martín and José de Atienza y Alcalá. [Twitchell]
May: Atienza begins notarizing diligencias matrimoniales for Santa Cruz. [Roots]
Atienza is Quintana’s brother-in-law. Assuming Quintana is developing symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, or something similar, he may have trained Atienza. Since his handwriting, which was reproduced in the post for 26 June 2016, was still graceful and readable in 1732, one could assume it was his feet that first were affected, rather than his hands. Based on the age he gave in 1734, he would have been 44 years old. The disease later may have reached his ankles or knees, making it difficult to walk. [Comment]
1723
September: Quintana notarizes his last DM in Santa Cruz. Atienza continues as the notary. [Roots]
It isn’t clear if Quintana’s health makes if difficult for him to travel to notarize DMs, or if, after Sopeña becomes the local friar in 1724, he no longer is called by the church. [Comment]
1724
Sopeña is assigned to the mission at Santa Clara. He also serves the mission at Santa Cruz. Juan de Tagle still is available in the mission at San Ildefonso. [Archives]
1725
September: Quintana notarizes a DM for the marriage of Juan Antonio Martín and Feliciana Monroy. Antonio Martín, the boy’s father, had died in Chimayó. [Roots]
The wedding isn’t recorded in Santa Cruz, so it isn’t known if his sponsors were avoiding oversight by the friars in Santa Cruz, or if the family had some other reason for asking Quintana to be its notary. [Comment]
1726
January: Juan Sánchez de la Cruz is in the mission at Nambé until May 1727. He had been there in February of 1720 and from February 1722 until December 1728. [Archives]
At some time, Quintana hears Cruz preach at Nambé "about the punishments suffered by the damned in hell, and he felt his heart and spirit so distressed that it seemed to him - such was the terror that came over him - that he was going to be damned. But the thought came to him: ‘Miguel, neither you nor the holy father will be cast into hell,’ and the pleasure that this brought was so great that the tribulation left him." [Quintana 1734]
José Irigoyen later marks the passage above in single quotation marks, as heresy. [Lomelí]
February-August: Juan George del Pino appears in the mission at Santa Clara. [Archives]
At some time, Quintana gives Pino some verses on a sheet of paper. He uses the word versitos. [Quintana 1734]
Quintana has stopped writing coloquio celebrating Christ’s birth. A man asks him to write another. Quintana refuses at first, then agrees to do so. When he begins to write, he is seized with anguish. "I kept thinking it was all vanity and hypocrisy, and that I shouldn’t be getting mixed up in writing plays since I had had the experience of Your Paternal Grace telling me I was a hypocrite and that this was going to lead to my being publicly shamed by Your Paternal Grace himself." [Quintana 1732]
This is the first evidence that Sopeña has gone beyond advice in the confession to making public statements condemning Quintana. [Comment]
While Quintana is thinking of burning his work, he feels "a great help and a prodigious favor encouraging and strengthening me. It seems to take my hand and help me with these thought: ‘Don’t burn it, don’t burn it. Continue and offer your play to His Divine Majesty’." He uses the word coloquio throughout. [Quintana 1732]
Quintana indicates this is the event that converts his public writing into private dialogues between the character Miguel and God over contradictory demands made on Miguel by the Roman Catholic church. [Comment]
Psychologists might see this as a double bind of the kind that can lead to schizophrenic behavior. Quintana has avoided that outcome by utilizing the artistic form described in the post for 26 June 2016 that allows two sides to speak without an expectation of a dénouement. [Comment]
1727
Juan de Tagle makes his last entry in a San Ildefonso sacramental book in March. [Archives]
1728
José Bernardo Gómez begins notarizing DMs in Santa Cruz; Atienza continues signing them. [Roots]
Gómez is the son of Antonio Gómez Robledo, who was an illegitimate son of Francisco and a nephew of Andrés, the father-in-law of Ignacio Roybal. That makes him a cousin of Juan Gómez del Castillo, who will marry Quintana’s daughter Antonia. [Families, 19 June 2016]
Notes: Dates in brackets refer to earlier postings. Comments are those of the author.
Chávez, Angélico. Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, 1678-1900, 1957.
_____. New Mexico Roots, Ltd, 1982.
_____. Origins of New Mexico Families, 1992 revised edition.
Lomelí, Francisco A. and Clark A. Colahan. Defying the Inquisition in Colonial New Mexico, 2006.
Quintana, Miguel de. Coloquio, 1732, Santa Cruz; in Lomelí.
_____. Interrogation by José Antonio Guerrero in the Inquisition office, Santa Fé, 8 November 1734; in Lomelí.
Twitchell, Ralph Emerson. Spanish Archives of New Mexico, volume 1, 1914.
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