One of Lamy’s most important charges upon Salpointe, now the vicar apostolic of Arizona with the title of Bishop of Dorylla in partibus infidelium, was to find and engage for Santa Fe an architect and some skilled stonemasons who would undertake to proceed with the building of the new cathedral, for the earlier contractor-architect—an American—had proved inefficient in the laying of the foundations, which were already shifting. Salpointe found his men. They were Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus, who in turn found stonecutters. All would go to Santa Fe to work on the new shell of the stone
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