. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. he mission, Arricivita, Cronica Serafica, ii., p. 334; Morfl, Meraorias.*Arricivita, Cronica Serafica, p. 368; Morfi, Memorias. Fa-ther Cajetan Aponte y Lis, a native of Pontevedra, came to America in1730, was ten years in the Texan mission, and died May 25, 1791. DEATH OF FATHER TERREROS. 503 iiid in July Father Terreros wrote very despondinglj, Fa-ther Benedict Vai-ela, sent to the Apaches, having failed inliis mission, and subsequent
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. he mission, Arricivita, Cronica Serafica, ii., p. 334; Morfl, Meraorias.*Arricivita, Cronica Serafica, p. 368; Morfi, Memorias. Fa-ther Cajetan Aponte y Lis, a native of Pontevedra, came to America in1730, was ten years in the Texan mission, and died May 25, 1791. DEATH OF FATHER TERREROS. 503 iiid in July Father Terreros wrote very despondinglj, Fa-ther Benedict Vai-ela, sent to the Apaches, having failed inliis mission, and subsequent negotiations proving ineffectual. The friendly intercourse with the Apaches seems to havearoused hostile feelings in the Texan tribes, who regardedthem as their natural enemies. Father Silva was killed nearthe Kio Grande by a party of Indians who were recognizedas belonging to tribes under the care of missionaries. On the 16th of March, 1758, Father Alonso Terreros had of-fered the holy sacrifice at daybreak, and Father Santiestebanhad just put on his vestments, when their ears were saluted bythe yells of a large Indian force, with occasional FAC-SIMII,E OF TETE SIGNATURE OP FATHER TERREROS. When the Indians reached the mission many were recognizedas Texas and Bidais. They professed friendship, and asked In 1759 there was received in Texas and promulgated tlirough theparishes and missions the edict of Rt. Rev. Friar Francis De San Buena-ventura Martinez de Tejada Diez de Velasco, Bishop of Guadalajara,the new Kingdom of Galicia, and Leon, the Provinces of Nayarit, Cali-fornia, Coahuila, and Texas, making a holiday of obligation of De-cember 12th, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Pope Benedict the petition of the Archbishop of Mexico and Bishop of Miclioacanhad made the Blessed Virgin under that title Patroness of all the prov-inces of Mexico. Register of Church of San Fernando, San Antonio,Dec. 12, 1759. 504 THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES. a letter to the conii
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