. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. found by in the church, and that the bodies of the two missionaries wereinterred together in the cemetery. Father Arricivita writing a few yearslater says the body of Santiestebau was never found, so that some thoughthe was carried off alive. J VISITATION BY BISHOP TEJADA. 505 sions -were maintained, liowever, for eight years till the in-vasion of the Conianches broke them up. In these Texan missions the Franciscans and the Span
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. found by in the church, and that the bodies of the two missionaries wereinterred together in the cemetery. Father Arricivita writing a few yearslater says the body of Santiestebau was never found, so that some thoughthe was carried off alive. J VISITATION BY BISHOP TEJADA. 505 sions -were maintained, liowever, for eight years till the in-vasion of the Conianches broke them up. In these Texan missions the Franciscans and the Spanishauthorities had always entertained different views. TheFranciscans wished the Indians placed on reservations, andkept by military force from wandering off. The officialswished the missionaries to instruct the Indians when andvrhere they could. The latter plan kept the missionariescompletely in the hands of the officials for their maintenanceand the supplies needed by the mission, and from officialcorruption missionaries often suffered greatly. All these missions enjoyed in 1759 the presence of aBishop, the Et. Rev. Francis de San Buenaventura Tejada. FAC-SIMILE OF THE SIGNATURE OP BISHOP TEJADA. of Guadalajara in his visitation of his diocese, having trav-ersed the whole of Texas. The report of his official examin-ation Mould give a most authentic picture of the state ofreligion at that time, but unfortunately it is not accessible. On the 19th of November, 1759, Bishop Francis de SanBuenaventura Tejada made his visitation of the Church of SanFernando in the city now known as San Antonio. He was Informe of F. Ximenez, Arricivita, p. 386. Relacion que hizoel R. P. Predicador Fr. Mauuel Molina sobre las muertes de los PP. FrayAlonso Giraldo de Terreros y Fr. Jose de Santiesteban en San , Abril de 1758. 506 THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. duly received according to the prescribed forms by the parishpriest, Bachelor Cardenas. All was done in due form. Hissecretary, Dr. Mat
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