[PDF] A Jesuit Missionary In Eighteenth Century Sonora eBook

Author : Raymond H. Thompson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826354254

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In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands. Philipp Segesser got his wish when he was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. For the next thirty years he carried on an active correspondence with his family and religious affiliates. His letters home, translated and edited in this fascinating book, provide a frank and intimate view of missionary life on the remote northwestern frontier of New Spain. The editor’s introduction sets the letters in biographical and historical context.

Author : Ignaz Pfefferkorn
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0816511446

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"The bloodsucking bat, construction of bows and arrows, the punishment for adultery among the Apaches... all was grist that dropped into the industrious mill of Father Pfefferkorn's eyes, ears, and brain."—Saturday Review "To be read for enjoyment; nevertheless, the historian will find in it a wealth of information that has been shrewdly appraised, carefully sifted, and creditably related."—Catholic Historical Review "Of interest not only to the historian but to the geographer and anthropologist."—Pacific Historical Review

Author : Joseph Och
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Indians of Mexico
ISBN :

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A translation from the Spanish of the travel reports on an 18th century pioneer Jesuit priest who worked among the Indians of Mexico and Sonora.

Author : Jose De la Torre Curiel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0804787328

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Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm—which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century—new light is shed on how demographic, cultural, economic, and institutional variables modified life in the Franciscan missions in Sonora. During the late eighteenth century, forms of interaction between Sonoran indigenous groups and Spanish settlers grew in complexity and intensity, due in part to the implementation of reform-minded Bourbon policies which envisioned a more secular, productive, and modern society. At the same time, new forms of what this book identifies as pluriethnic mobility also emerged. Franciscan missionaries and mission residents deployed diverse strategies to cope with these changes and results varied from region to region, depending on such factors as the missionaries' backgrounds, Indian responses to mission life, local economic arrangements, and cultural exchanges between Indians and Spaniards.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739177842

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The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the Southwest as well, known as Arizona/Sonora today, in the eighteenth century as Pimer a Alta. This was the area where the Jesuits operated all by themselves, and many of them, at least since the 1730s, originated from the Holy Roman Empire, hence were identified as Germans (including Swiss, Austrians, Bohemians, Croats, Alsatians, and Poles). Most of them were highly devout and dedicated, hard working and very intelligent people, achieving wonders in terms of settling the native population, teaching and converting them to Christianity. However, because of complex political processes and the effects of the 'black legend' all Jesuit missionaries were expelled from the Americas in 1767, and the order was banned globally in 1773. As this book illustrates, a surprisingly large number of these German Jesuits composed extensive reports and even encyclopedias, not to forget letters, about the Sonoran Desert and its people. Much of what we know about that world derives from their writing, which proves to be fascinating, lively, and highly informative reading material.

Author : Florence Byham Weinberg
Publisher :
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Murder
ISBN :

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"Mystery and murder in Jesuit mission territory: a story set in the desert and craggy mountains of Sonora, Mexico, in the eighteenth century. An army captain is killed at Ures Mission in such a way as to throw the blame on the missionary, Andreas Michel, S.J. He sends to a neighboring mission for Fr. Ignaz Pfefferkorn, who investigates, risking his life in the process. The investigation reveals illegitimate commerce--gun-running--between a Jesuit Vice-Provincial and Dutch traders, a beautiful widow seeking revenge against the army and the Jesuits for her husband's suspicious death, Apache involvement, and political intrigue. Ignaz solves the crime, but he and his brothers are swept up in the expulsion of all Jesutis from Spain and its dependencies. Brutally treated, only twenty-seven of the original fifty-one missionaries survive to board the prison ship back to Spain. Ignaz, personifying the best of the Jesuit mission endeavor in New Spain, mourns the destrucion of the entire enterprise.

Author : Juan Nentvig
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0816550689

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Just as the Rudo Ensayo is more an historic document than a mere history, so this new translation of it is more a documented interpretation than simply a new translation. The translator/editors bring their expert knowledge of the area, the language, and the history to every page of Nentvig's manuscript. Pradeau and Rasmussen have clarified many of the ambiguities of earlier translations by Smith (1863) and Guiteras (1894), and have added substantial annotations to the author's accounts of fauna and flora, native culture, and Spanish outposts. An incomparable record of a twelve-year mission in 18th century Sonora, the Rudo Ensayo as rendered in modern English is also a fascinating travelogue through an untamed land.

Author : Thomas E. Sheridan
Publisher :
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 1999
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780816543779

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From the earliest days of their empire in the New World, the Spanish sought to gain control of the native peoples and lands of what is now Sonora. While missionaries were successful in pacifying many Indians, the Seris-independent groups of hunter-gatherers who lived on the desert shores and islands of the Gulf of California-steadfastly defied Spanish efforts to subjugate them. Empire of Sand is a documentary history of Spanish attempts to convert, control, and ultimately annihilate the Seris. These papers of religious, military, and government officials attest to the Seris' resilience in the face of numerous Spanish attempts to conquer them and remove them from their lands. The documents include early observations of the Seris by Jesuit missionaries, descriptions of the collapse of the Seri mission system in 1748, accounts of the invasion of Tiburón Island in 1750 and the Sonora Expedition of 1767-71, and reports of late eighteenth-century Seri hostilities. Thomas E. Sheridan's introduction puts the documents in perspective, while his notes objectively clarify their significance. By skillfully weaving the documents into a coherent narrative of Spanish-Seri interaction, he has produced a compelling account of empire and resistance that speaks to anthropologists, historians, and all readers who take heart in stories of resistance to oppression.