The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of what is today Mexico, the Southwestern United States, the Florida and the Luisiana, Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines) in order to preach the gospel to these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan friars with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.
Missions
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- Mission San Francisco Solano[1][2]
- Mission San Juan Bautista[3]
- Mission Dulce Nombre de Jesus de Peyotes in Villa Union
- Mission San Andrés de Nava
- Mission San Buenaventura de la Consolación
- Mission Nuestra Señora de Dolores de la Punta in Lampazos
- Mission San Bernardino de la Candela
- Mission San Buenaventura in Cuatrocienegas
- Mission Santa Rosa de Nadadores
- Mission San Francisco de Saltillo
- Mission San Miguel de Aguayo in Monclova
Topia, the western province of Nueva Vizcaya, contained three major missions: Xiximes, San Andrés, and Santa Cruz de Topia. These were each subdivided into several districts, or partidos, each of which in turn contained several pueblos, or visitas.[4]
San Andrés
editFirst district:
- San Ignacio de Otatitlán[5]
- Piaba[4]
- Alaya[4]
- Quejupa[4]
Second district:
- San Ildefonso de los Remedios[5]
- Santa Catalina[4]
Third district:
Fourth district:
- Santa María de Otáez[5]
- Santiago Batzotzi[4]
Santa Cruz de Topia
editFirst district:
- San Juan de Badiraguato[5]
- Reyes de Conimeto[4]
- Santa Cruz[4]
- San Francisco Alicamae[4]
Second district:
- San Martin Atotonilco[4]
- Santiago Merirato[4]
- San Ignacio Coriatapa[4]
- San Pedro Guatenipa[4]
- San Ignacio Bamupa[4]
- San Luis Soyatlán[4]
- Nabogame (or Saboguame)[4]
Third district:
Parras, the eastern province of Nueva Vizcaya, contained six major missions with their visitas, as follows.[4]
Mission San Pablo Tepehuanes[5] had the following partidos and visitas:[4]
First district:
- Santiago Papasquiaro
- San Andrés Atotonilco
- San Nicolás
Second district:
- Santa Catalina
- Tepehuanes presidio
Third district:
- San Ignacio del Zape[5][6]
- San Simon[7]
Fourth district:
- San José Tizonazo
- Santa Cruz
Other missions in Nueva Vizcaya included:
- Mission San Jeronimo, in Aldama
- Mission Santa Rosalía in Camargo
- Mission San Francisco de Conchos[5]
- Mission San Ignacio de Cariatapa[5]
- Mission San Gregorio de la Sierra[5]
- Mission La Purísima Concepción de Caborca[8]
- Mission San Antonio de Oquitoa[9]
- Mission San Diagos de Pitiquito[10]
- Mission San Ignacio de Cabórica[11]
- Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama[12]
- Mission Santa María Magdalena[13]
- Mission Santa Teresa de Atil
- Mission Santiago y Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Cocóspera[14]
- Mission San Miguel de Ures[15]
Other
edit- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
- Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl
- Mendicant monasteries in Mexico
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Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria. -
Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria. -
Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria. -
Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO MISSION | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1884). History of the North Mexican States... A. L. Bancroft. pp. 341–344.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Deeds, Susan M. (1 August 2003). Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya. University of Texas Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-292-70551-7.
- ^ Later Nuestra Señora del Zape.
- ^ Also called Potrero; later San José
- ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- ^ Murrieta, Cynthia Radding (1997). Wandering Peoples: Colonialism, Ethnic Spaces, and Ecological Frontiers in Northwestern Mexico, 1700-1850. Duke University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8223-1899-6.
External links
edit- Mexico's colonial era — Part II: Religion & Society in New Spain
- Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
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