Domingo de la Anunciación (1510–1591), born Juan de Ecija (also spelled as Ecía), was a Spanish Dominican missionary in New Spain (now Mexico).
Biography
editHe was born in Fuente Ovejuna as Juan de Ecija. At the age of 13, he requested to be admitted to the Order of St. Francis, but was denied. His father, Hernando de Ecija, died in 1528, and Juan and his elder brother Hernando de Paz moved to New Spain. There, Hernando became a secretary to the Royal Audiencia of Mexico.[1] Juan became a member of the Dominican Order and assumed his new name Domingo de la Anunciación.
Domingo was considered of the most zealous instructors of the Mexican Indians. During the epidemic of 1545, he went from village to village to attend the natives.
In 1559, Domingo de la Anunciación, Domingo de Salazar, and a lay brother joined Tristán de Luna y Arellano on his expedition to southwestern Florida.[2] The group traveled near to what is now the Caloosahatchee River,[3] where they were shipwrecked and deprived of resources.
After de la Anunciación returned to Mexico, he returned to Mexico to continue teaching. In 1565 he published his only known work, a book of Christian doctrine in Spanish and Nahuatl entitled Doctrina cristiana breve y compendiosa por vía de diálogo entre un maestro y un discípulo.[4][5]
In 1585, Domingo became blind and retired from teaching; he died in 1591. After his brother's death, Herando de Paz became a Dominican and a member of the order.[6]
Diego Aduarte mentioned de la Anunciación in one of his works.[7] Agustín Dávila Padilla also wrote about him.[8]
References
edit- ^ Barrado Barquilla, José (1997). Los Dominicos y el Nuevo Mundo, siglos XIX-XX: actas del Vo Congreso Internacional, Querétaro, Qro., México, 4-8 septiembre 1995. Editorial San Esteban. p. 93. ISBN 8482600265. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Cárdenas Cano, Gabriel (1723). Ensayo cronológico por la historia general de la Florida: desde el año 1512 de su descubrimiento hasta el de 1727. Oficina Real. p. 34. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Writers Program Florida (1940). The Spanish Missions of Florida. Works Progress Administration. p. 10. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ de León-Portilla, Ascensión H. (1988). Teputzlahcuilolli. National Autonomous University of Mexico. p. 44. ISBN 9688372471. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Ricard, Robert (1974). The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico: An Essay on the Apostolate and the Evangelizing Methods of the Mendicant Orders in New Spain, 1523-1572. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN 0520027604. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia. D. Appleton & Company. 1907. p. 591. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Aduarte, Diego (1693). De la historia de la Provincia del Sto. Rosario de Filipinas, Japón y China de la Sda. Orden de Predicadores. p. 170. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ Davila y Padilla, Agustín (1625). Historia de la fundacion y discurso de la prouincia de Santiago de Mexico, de la Orden de Predicadores por las vidas de sus varones insignes y casos notables de Nueua España. Juan de Meerbeque. pp. 81–619. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Fray Domingo de la Anunciación". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
