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  2. Ajacán Mission - Wikipedia

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    The Ajacán Mission (Spanish pronunciation:) (also Axaca, Axacam, Iacan, Jacán, Xacan) was a Spanish attempt in 1570 to establish a Jesuit mission in the vicinity of the Virginia Peninsula to bring Christianity to the Virginia Native Americans. [1]

  3. Juan María de Salvatierra - Wikipedia

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    His father was of Spanish origin, and his mother was Italian. [2] [3] He studied in the Jesuit college of Parma. It was there that he accidentally came across a book on the "Indian missions," which fascinated him. He entered the Jesuit Order in Genoa and in 1675 he sailed for the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day Mexico.

  4. Spanish missions in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    An example of rebellion against colonization and missionaries is the Pueblo Revolt in 1680, in which the Zuni, Hopi, as well as Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Tano, and Keres-speaking Pueblos took control of Santa Fe and drove the Spanish colonists of New Mexico with heavy casualties on the Spanish side, including the killing of 21 of the 33 Franciscan ...

  5. Alonzo Sánchez - Wikipedia

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    Sánchez gave an account of the Jesuit missions in the Philippines to Aquaviva, the general of the Society of Jesus. It had been proposed to withdraw the priests from the Archipelago, but Aquaviva, following the plan proposed by Sánchez, determined that the society should remain, and made the Manila residence a college with Sedeno as its first ...

  6. Jesuits - Wikipedia

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    The Comunero Revolt (1721 to 1735) was a serious protest by Spanish and mestizo Paraguayans against the Jesuit missions. The residents of Paraguay violently protested the pro-Jesuit government of Paraguay, Jesuit control of Guaraní labor, and what they regarded as unfair competition for the market for products such as yerba mate .

  7. San Pedro y San Pablo College, Mexico City - Wikipedia

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    San Pedro y San Pablo College was the second college founded by Jesuits in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. [3] The Jesuit missionaries were sent to the new colony in the 16th century for Jesuit Reductions version of Indian Reductions, and to found new missions and schools. The missionary group that founded the college was led by Father Pedro Sanchez.

  8. Father Saturnino Urios University - Wikipedia

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    The school is named in honor of its founder Father Saturnino Urios, SJ, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who led the establishment of the institution in 1901. In 2006, then Urios College was elevated into a university. On June 30, 2008, the elementary and high school departments moved to a new campus (Morelos Campus) in Brgy. Libertad.

  9. List of Jesuits - Wikipedia

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    Cipriano Barace, Spanish missionary and martyr; Ignacio Martín-Baró, martyr in El Salvador; Pedro Barreto, Peruvian cardinal proclaimed by Pope Francis in 2018. Augustin Barruel, French writer; Florian Baucke, Silesian and Bohemian Jesuit missionary to South America; Michel Baudouin, Superior-General of the Louisiana Mission (1749-1763)