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projectus interruptus:
This is irony. When I went to publish this column, I discovered that my ISP, Hawaiian Telcom, is having a serious but intermittent routing issue. They’re dropping most packets between the island and a big block of Hetzner IP addresses in Oregon, including the server that […]
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September 7, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Projectus interruptus.
June 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
#ThisDayIn 1854 (Nov. 8): Father Donato Rogeria performed his last baptism for the San Felipe Neri Parish in Albuquerque, for Jesus Jose de San Antonio Candelaria. Some 2-1/2 weeks later, Joseph Projectus Machebeuf returned to the head of the parish after recruiting six seminarians from Montferrand.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
#ThisDayIn 1859 (Oct. 27): Vicar General Joseph Projectus Machebeuf arrived in Santa Fe from Clermont. He brought with him two priests, Jean Baptiste Salpointe and Francis Jovenceau, along with Deacon John B. Raverdy, four brothers and four pre-seminary students.
October 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
#ThisDayIn 1852 (Oct. 17): Joseph Projectus Machebeuf baptized his first child as the new Parish Priest of San Felipe Neri Church in Albuquerque, Mariano de Jesus Armijo.
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
#ThisDayIn 1852 (Sept. 21): Padre Manuel Jose Gallegos of San Felipe Neri Church in Albuquerque was compelled to sign over the marriage book for the parish to Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy’s close associate Padre Joseph Projectus Machebeuf.
September 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
(A few weeks later, Joseph Projectus Machebeuf was appointed assistant to Parish Priest Father Joseph McNamee of Tiffin, Ohio. He arrived hardly understanding a word of English.)
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
(Cather had been working on the book for 15 years, and it was based largely on the life stories of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy of Santa Fe and to a lesser extent on Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf of Denver during his New Mexico days.)
September 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
(At about the same time, Jean Projectus Machebeuf, more outspoken in his criticism of the native clergy, wrote: “The great obstacle to the good which the Bishop is disposed to do among the Mexicans does not come from the people but from the priests themselves who do not want the Bishop.”)
September 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
(“So without any architectural guidance they continued with what was started. That did not include access to the choir loft. In a letter to his father before he died, Projectus wrote that he made ‘no changes in your prints.’ However, blueprints have not been found in any archives in New Mexico.”)
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
(“The nuns’ accounting records also show that local artisans A. Rodriguez and Rafale Martin worked for them. Unfortunately, the Moulys - Antoine and son Projectus, who originally designed the Loretto Chapel after the Sainte-Chapelle in France - left no design sketches.”)
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
#ThisDayIn 1881 (Aug. 27): Monier & Colloudon advertised in the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican that they were “builders of the Sisters’ of Loretto new chapel.” They had indeed gotten involved with the finishing of the chapel after Projectus Mouly returned to France, only to die of typhoid fever there.
August 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
#ThisDayIn 1839 (Aug. 21): After 44 days at sea, the ship Sylvie de Grasse arrived in New York City and discharged the party that included Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf. They paid their respects to the Bishop of New York before continuing on.
August 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
#ThisDayIn 1868 (Aug. 16): Vicar Apostolic Joseph Projectus Machebeuf was consecrated Bishop of Denver at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Cincinnati by his old friend Archbishop John Baptist Purcell. He later appointed Rev. John Baptist Raverdy to serve as his Vicar General.
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
#ThisDayIn 1839 (Aug. 8): On setting his eyes upon New York City, Joseph Projectus Machebeuf wrote of his impressions as they reached the New World. Despite becoming sick on the journey, everyone was in good health as the ship approached harbor.
August 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
#ThisDayIn 1858 (Aug. 5): Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, Vicar General of Santa Fe, reported: “I had to return to Santa Fe, and had not expected to leave again until Monsignor Lamy returned from St. Louis, but a very sad event soon forced me to travel to another distant part of the diocese.”
August 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
(He hired Antoine Mouly as architect, and he and his 18-year-old son Projectus arrived in Santa Fe to carry out the construction. Unfortunately, Antoine soon began to go blind, which forced his son to carry out the construction, perhaps before he was ready for such a grand project.)
July 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
#ThisDayIn 1889 (July 10): Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf passed away after arriving at the St. Vincent Orphanage in Denver a week earlier from a trip out into the countryside of his diocese. He was surrounded by the Sisters of Charity and some of his priests at death.
July 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
#ThisDayIn 1839 (July 7): Just after receiving forgiveness from his father for sneaking away from his home to go on an ecclesiastical mission to America, Joseph Projectus Machebeuf tells in a letter from Havre that they are departing on board the ship Sylvie de Grasse.
July 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
#ThisDayIn 1839 (May 26): J. B. Purcell, Bishop of Cincinnati, arrived in Paris to make ready his team of ecclesiastical men to travel to the New World. These included Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Bishop Flaget, Father Magill, and 10 other priests from Clermont.
May 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
#ThisDayIn 1839 (May 21): Joseph Projectus Machebeuf and Jean-Baptiste Lamy departed in apparent secrecy from their hometown of Riom near Clermont, France. Three days later, from Paris, Machebeuf would write an explanation from Paris to his family as to why they set out for the New World.
May 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
(They later selected Jean Baptiste Lamy (L) as the Vicariate Apostolic of New Mexico. Lamy confided to his friend, Joseph Projectus Machebeuf (R), “They wish that I should be the Vicar Apostolic and I wish you to be the Vicar General and from these two vicars we shall try to make one good pastor.”)
May 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
#ThisDayIn 1856 (Apr. 30): Padre Juan Felipe Ortiz protested to the Papal offices in Rome after Jean Baptiste Lamy, Bishop of Santa Fe, divided Santa Fe into two parishes and gave the older Parroquia de San Francisco de Asis to fellow Frenchman Father Joseph Projectus Machebeuf.
April 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM