Following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Chvez performed the difficult duties of an isolated back-country pastor, an army chaplain in World War II, and became an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist.
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All true aficionado\'s of the American Southwest\'s history and culture will profit by collecting and reading the significant body of work left to us by the remarkable Fray Angé1ico Chávez.
Among them were novels, essays, poetry, biographies, and histories.
During nearly seventy years of writing, he published almost two dozen books.
Upon all of his endeavors, one finds, understandably, the imprint of his religious perspective.
In time, despite heavy clerical duties, Fray Angélico managed to become an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist.
As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards that because of his small stature, Japanese bullets always missed him.
His assignments included Hispanic villages and Indian pueblos.
In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Chávez performed the difficult duties of an isolated backcountry pastor.
Any way you measure his career, Fray Angélico Chávez was an unexpected phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest.
He has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico\'s foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken.
Upon all of his endeavors, one finds the imprint of his religious perspective.
Following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Chvez performed the difficult duties of an isolated back-country pastor, an army chaplain in World War II, and became an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist
