Custodia de San Carlos de Sonora
Custodia de San Carlos de Sonora (Spanish)
Collection area: Borderlands
Collection dates: 1788
Forty-page holographic manuscript; relates the history and description of the Franciscan custody of San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico. Written at the Aconchi Mission, and dated July 11, 1788.
Franciscan priest; Father President of the Sonoran missions, 1781-1783; headed the ecclesiastical counteroffensive to Bishop Antonio de los Reyes' plan for the San Carlos "custodia." This was a new administrative district that would institute reforms in the Sonoran mission communities.
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