time the see contained forty-five parishes in charge of secular clergy, a dozen of them among the Spanish settlers and miners.[1]
On the death of Bishop Zárate of Oajaca,[2] another prominent Dominican, Bernardo Acuña de Alburquerque,[3] was chosen his successor, and since he
had already occupied this field as a friar, he gladly resumed his task, and labored with tireless ardor and
- ↑ Gonzalez, Dávila, Teatro Ecles., i. 91, 112-22; ii. 96; Concilios Prov., MS., 1-4; Id., 1555-66, vi.-vii. 320-4; Beaumont, Crón. Mich., v. 574-8; Grijalva, Crón. S. August., 143-5; Mich. Anál. Estad., 5; Queipo, Col., 50; Florencia, Hist. Prov. Jesus, 210; Mich. Prov. S. Nic., 19; Calle, Mem. y Not., 62, 72. Vetancort, Trat. Mex., Fernandez, Hist. Ecles., 116, 131; Mendieta, Hist. Ecles.,
- ↑ See pp. 391-2, this volume.
- ↑ During his labors in Oajaca he nad written a catechism in Zapotec, and after his ministry here he attained to the highest honors of his order in New Spain.
death in 1599. Another author places his appointment to Michoacan in Feb. 1599, stating that he ruled four years, in which last statement he follows Gonzalez Dávila. Touron, Hist. Gen., vii. 247-8. A sister of his had founded three Jesuit colleges in Castile. The enemies of the order endeavored to influence him against its members but without avail. Alegre, Hist. Comp. Jesus, i. 369.
