Couplets in indigenous Copan language of Indians in Guatemala. 1540's. Written by Fray Luis de Cancer Died 1549. Carcer was a Dominican missionary who participated in the evangelization of the New World in the sixteenth century. He took to nonviolent preaching among Native Americans

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