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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.
Guadalupe Missionaries (Spanish: Misioneros de Guadalupe, official name: Spanish: Instituto de Santa María de Guadalupe para las Misiones Extranjeras), also known by their abbreviation MG, is a Roman Catholic missionary society in Mexico. It was founded on October 7, 1949.
The history of the Catholic Church in Mexico dates from the period of the Spanish conquest (1519–21) and has continued as an institution in Mexico into the twenty-first century. Catholicism is one of many major legacies from the Spanish colonial era, the others include Spanish as the nation's language, the Civil Code and Spanish colonial ...
Father Damien – missionary to Hawaii known for working with the lepers; Anton Docher – French missionary in New Mexico, defender of the Native Americans; Louis William Valentine Dubourg – missionary to the US; Francis Xavier Ford – missionary to China, martyr and Servant of God; Joseph Freinademetz – nineteenth-century canonized ...
Chimayo is the spiritual hub of a region steeped in Catholicism dating back to the arrival of Spanish missionaries in 1598. Hispanic settlers and their livestock came along with them.
The Missionaries of the Holy Spirit (MSpS) are a Catholic religious institute founded in Mexico City in 1914 by French missionary Félix de Jesús Rougier. Father Rougier was a priest and a member of another religious order, the Society of Mary. He would receive dispensation of his vows and permission to join the new congregation 12 years later.
The convent of San Augustin, a mission centre established at Yuriria, Mexico in 1550. The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples.
This is a list of lists of Spanish missions in the Americas. The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America