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Author Rex Galindo, David, author

Title To sin no more : Franciscans and conversion in the Hispanic world, 1683-1830 / David Rex Galindo
Published Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 330 pages)
Contents An Atlantic institution -- Recruiting missionaries -- Training missionaries -- Converting Catholics -- Missionary preaching
Summary For 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding the first college of propaganda fide in the Mexican city of Querétaro, the Franciscan Order established six additional colleges in New Spain, ten in South America, and twelve in Spain. From these colleges Franciscans proselytized Indians in frontier territories as well as Catholics in rural and urban areas in eighteenth-century Spain and Spanish America. To Sin No More is the first book to study these colleges, their missionaries, and their multifaceted, sweeping missionary programs. By focusing on the recruitment of non-Catholics to Catholicism as well as the deepening of religious fervor among Catholics, David Rex Galindo shows how the Franciscan colleges expanded and shaped popular Catholicism in the eighteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world. This book explores the motivations driving Franciscan friars, their lives inside the colleges, their training, and their ministry among Catholics, an often-overlooked duty that paralleled missionary deployments. Rex Galindo argues that Franciscan missionaries aimed to reform or "reawaken" Catholic parishioners just as much as they sought to convert non-Christian Indians
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Franciscans -- Missions -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History -- Congresses
Franciscans -- Missions -- America -- History -- Congresses
Franciscans -- Missions -- Spain -- History -- Congresses
SUBJECT Franciscans fast
Subject Hispanic Americans -- Missions -- History -- Congresses
Hispanic Americans -- Missions
Missions
SUBJECT Atlantic Ocean Region -- Church history -- Congresses
America -- Church history -- Congresses
Spain -- Church history -- Congresses
Subject America
Atlantic Ocean Region
Spain
Genre/Form Church history
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503604087
150360408X