. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. PAC-SIMILE OP SIGNATURE OP BP. GABRIEL DIAZ VARA CALDERON. Havana on the 18th of August, 1674, convoyed by a fleet,and on the 23d entered the harbor of Saint Augustine. Thenext day he began the visitation. Unfortunately we havebut a part of the record of his episcopal labors, yet enoughto show that the visitation was not a mere form. He cel- Sotolongo was cura propietario of San Agustin, 1666-1674, his dutiesbeing discliarged from 1671-4
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. PAC-SIMILE OP SIGNATURE OP BP. GABRIEL DIAZ VARA CALDERON. Havana on the 18th of August, 1674, convoyed by a fleet,and on the 23d entered the harbor of Saint Augustine. Thenext day he began the visitation. Unfortunately we havebut a part of the record of his episcopal labors, yet enoughto show that the visitation was not a mere form. He cel- Sotolongo was cura propietario of San Agustin, 1666-1674, his dutiesbeing discliarged from 1671-4 by Antonio Lorenzo de Padilla, the chaplainof the fort. Noticias. We reproduce part of a view of St. Augustine,published at Amsterdam in 1671, DeNieuwe en Onbckcnde WeereldofBescliryving van America, by Arnold Montanus. If it is based on anyautlientic sketch, the church shown is apparently the parish church, notthe chapel of Nuestra Senora de la Leche, north of the fort. « Memorial en Derecho of Don Juan Ferro Machado. ^i^^--. ml ir-riiiiii t»»^^^t^s>4; it^-^^^ ,b^ 170 THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. ebrated a pontificial high mass on the 24th of xVugust in theancient city, which had already celebrated its iirst centenaiy;gave minor orders to seven young men, sons of respectedcitizens—and this is the first recorded instance of the con-ferring of the sacrament of Holy Orders within the presentlimits of the United States; gave a thousand dollars in almsto poor widows, who were reluctant to make known theirnecessities, created or increased by a hm-ricane that inundatedmost of the city on the 17th. After making a formal ^nsitation of the parish church onthe feast of the jS^ativity of the Blessed Virgin, where he wasreceived by the parish priest, Bachelor Sebastian Perez de laCerda, the bishop visited on the 39th the parish church, Doctrine of the Xative Indians in the city and sulnirbs,which was attached to the Convent of Saint Francis. Herehe was received by Father Antonio de
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