1. Prince, Spanish Mission Churches , p. 190.

2. Montoya, Isleta , p. 8.

3. Prince, Spanish Mission Churches , p. 190.

4. Hodge, Hammond, and Rey, Fray Alonso de Benavides , p. 64.

5. Scholes, "Documents for the History of the New Mexican Missions," p. 49.

6. Montoya, Isleta , p. 9.

7. Hodge, Hammond, and Rey, Fray Alonso de Benavides , p. 64.

8. Adams, Bishop Tamarón's Visitation , pp. 70-71.

9. Domínguez, The Missions , p. 203.

10. Ibid., p. 205.

9. Domínguez, The Missions , p. 203.

10. Ibid., p. 205.

11. Montoya, Isleta , p. 9.

12. Bloom, "Bourke on the Southwest XIII," pp. 196-197.

13. Two skylights in the metal roof permitted light to filter through the clerestory. Kessell, The Missions of New Mexico , p. 233, n. 6.

14. The enmity between the pueblo and Stadtmueller culminated in his removal, in handcuffs , by the pueblo administration in 1965. "Nine years later, in 1974, Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez re-elevated Isleta to parish status, and a resident priest, the first since Stadtmueller, moved back into the rectory." Ibid., p. 221.

15. Parsons, Isleta , p. 303.