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The College of Guadalupe de Zacatecas was a Roman Catholic Franciscan missionary college, or seminary (Colegio Apostolico), founded in Guadalupe, Zacatecas by the Order of Friars Minor between 1703 and 1707.
Initial restoration work to the structure and exterior of the mission churches was begun in the 1980s. Between 1991 and 1997, interior work on altars, choirs, organs and paintings was done. Further work was sponsored by the state between 1997 and 2002, which included that on surrounding plazas and monuments.
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.
According to modern Franciscan historians, this report by Serra to the Inquisition is the only letter of his that has survived from eight years of mission work in the Sierra Gorda. [45] Serra's first biographer, Francisco Palóu, wrote that Serra, in his role of inquisitor, had to work in many parts of Mexico and travel long distances. Yet the ...
The College of San Fernando de México was a Roman Catholic Franciscan missionary college, or seminary (Colegio Apostólico), [1] founded in Spanish colonial Mexico City by the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor on October 15, 1734.
The College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro was a Franciscan missionary college, or seminary, in New Spain. [1] It was located in present-day Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico, [2] and was the second Roman Catholic missionary college in the New World to train missionaries. [citation needed] The school was founded in 1683 by Antonio Llinás. [1]
Assembly Bill 91, authored by Assemblyman David Alvarez, D-San Diego, will create a pilot program to allow some students living in Mexico to pay in-state tuition at one of the seven community ...
The El Camino Real (Royal Road) connected missions from Loreto, Mexico to Mission San Francisco Solano, in Sonoma, a length of over 1200 miles. Between 1683 and 1834, Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries established a series of religious outposts from today's Baja California and Baja California Sur into present-day California