He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.
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His life was the basis for the character Joseph Vaillant in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes For The Archbishop.
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