. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. were summoned back tothe college. The two Franciscans, full of obedience at onceset out, resigning the Indian missions into the hands of theBishop of Nicaragua. Their superior, learning the import-ant work on which they were engaged, revoked his order,and the Bishop of Nicaragua assigned to them the district ofYera Paz, where they labored among the Choles and Lacan-dones, though their lives were in constant danger. Suchwas the ability of
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. were summoned back tothe college. The two Franciscans, full of obedience at onceset out, resigning the Indian missions into the hands of theBishop of Nicaragua. Their superior, learning the import-ant work on which they were engaged, revoked his order,and the Bishop of Nicaragua assigned to them the district ofYera Paz, where they labored among the Choles and Lacan-dones, though their lives were in constant danger. Suchwas the ability of Father Margil in acquiring languages,in comprehending the pagan ideas and refuting them, ingiving solid instruction, and in guiding neophytes in thepath of Christian life, that bishops placed bodies of mission-aries even of other orders under his direction, though thehumble religious in vain endeavored to avoid such a crowned his labors by establishing a Missionary Collegede Propaganda Fide in the city of Guatemala, of which hewas elected Guardian, His labors and his knowledge seemedsupernatural: in many cases he appeared to be laboring in. VEN. ANTHONY MARGI L OF JESUS, 0. FOUNDER OF THE TEXAS MISSIONS. pTTi^aii 1aJohn VEN. ANTHONY MARGIL. 489 two places at ouce, and tlie secret idolatries of the Indians whichescaped the knowledge of others he exposed and suppressed. From Guatemala he was summoned to Zacatecas to organ-ize an Apostolic College in that city, and in this new field oflabor he seemed again to multiply himself, directing the in-stitution under his care, preaching, giving missions, visitingand reclaiming neglected hamlets, as well as dischargingmany special duties assigned to him by the Commissary Gen-eral of the Indies, for with all his prodigious activity in theministry, Father Margils accuracy in all theological pointswas as great as though his days were spent in constant study. He next by order of the king established missions in Na
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