Born in Taos, I was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1964, and as a “retired priest” currently help in the Diocese of San Bernardino. In the early ‘70s, I served as Executive Director of PADRES, a Mexican American priests organization based in San Antonio, Texas. In the mid ‘70s, I authored Reluctant Dawn, a biography of Padre Martínez, second edition was published in 2006. The work was based on an 1877 manuscript by Santiago Valdez that I adapted into a contemporary English version in 1993. I am also collaborating in a film documentary on the Padre by Espinosa Productions, The Dawning of Liberty. Some of my other contributions to Padre Martínez literature include the following: Padre Martínez and the 1847 Taos Uprising, in Seeds of Struggle, Harvest of Hope (LDP Press, 1998). The ‘Un-Excommunication’ of Padre Martínez<’/i> a presentation to the NM Historical Society in 2006. <i>Padre Martínez and the Penitentes, a contribution to an anthology in The History of Taos edited by Corina Santistevan, to be published in the near future.