the First Italian War of Independence, 1848-1849), the topic of which is tactfully avoided by the churchmen.
This falls in the middle of "the Lombard war" (i.e. The first line of the novel unambiguously establishes the historical context of this very historical novel: the summer of 1848 follows right after the end of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The cardinals approve the request and express their hopes for Latour and the new apostolic vicariate. Bishop Ferrand, whose diocese is in the area of the Great Lakes, acts as a representative of the Provincial Council to recommend for the position Jean Marie Latour, a young priest from Auvergne serving as a parish priest in his diocese. The Provincial Council at Baltimore had made an appeal for this appointment not long after the New Mexico territory was annexed by the United States following the Mexican-American War. In the year 1848, four Catholic priests meet for dinner at a villa in Rome to discuss the appointment of a vicar for the new diocese of New Mexico.
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