The Franciscan Missions to the Maya were the attempts of the Franciscans to Christianize the indigenous peoples of the New World, specifically the Maya...

Franciscan missions may refer to the following: Franciscan missions to the Maya Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro Spanish missions...

Sierra Gorda of Querétaro Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert Franciscan missions to the Maya Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl Mendicant monasteries...

America Alta California Cerro de la Sal, Franciscan missions in the Peruvian Amazon. Franciscan missions to the Maya Louisiana (New Spain) Santa Rosa de Ocopa...

continue to do today.[citation needed] When Friar Jacobo de Testera arrived, leading the first of the Franciscan Missions to the Maya in the second half...

incorporated the territory of the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities into the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Maya occupied the Maya Region,...

Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice. In doing so, he burned Maya manuscripts...

Chuchiak IV, John F. (2005). ""Fide, Non Armis": Franciscan Reducciónes and the Maya Mission Experience on the Colonial Frontier of Yucatán, 1602–1640" (PDF)...

Augustinians, Franciscans, and Dominicans were moving into Asia and the Far East. The Portuguese sent missions into Africa. These are some of the most well-known...

Franciscans arrive in Trinidad and are killed by cannibals 1541 – Franciscans begin establishing missions in California 1542 – Francis Xavier goes to...