1 Jan 1659 Jahr - Francisco Hidalgo

Beschreibung:

He was one of the most patient and persistent advocates of missions among the Indians of East Texas, was born in Spain in 1659. After some time he joined twenty-three of his brethren, who crossed the Atlantic in 1683, to help found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro. (Then he was 24) By 1684 he and other priests of the College of Santa Cruz had begun preaching in the villages that surrounded Querétaro. During this time La Salle's Texas Settlement was discovered in 1689, and missions were founded among the Tejas Indians the following year, but Hidalgo did not enter Texas on that occasion.