- Spanish missions in Mexico
The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of
religious outposts established by Spanish CatholicFranciscan s, Jesuits,Augustinians , and Dominicans to spread theChristian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, theKingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout "Nueva España" (New Spain , consisting ofMexico and portions of what today are the SouthwesternUnited States ) in order to facilitate colonization of these lands. In 1533, at the request ofHernán Cortés , Carlos V sent the first Franciscanmonk s with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.Missions
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Misión La Purísima Concepción de Caborca , inCaborca ,Sonora [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/Caborca.html]
*Misión San Antonio de Oquitoa , inOquitoa , Sonora [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/Oquitoa.html]
*Misión San Diego de Pitiquito Mission , inPitiquito , Sonora [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/Pitiquito.html]
* Mission San Francisco Solano inCoahuila [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/uqs16.html] [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/uqs24.html]
*Misión San Ignacio de Cabórica , in Sonora [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/San_Ignacio.html]
* Mission San Juan Bautista inCoahuila [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/uqs24.html]
*Misión San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama , inTubutama , Sonora [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/Tubutama.html]
*Misión Santa Maria Magdalena , in Sonora [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/Magdalena.html]
*Misión Santa Rosalía inCamargo, Chihuahua
*Misión Santiago y Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Cocóspera , inCocóspera , Sonora [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/Cocospera.html]
*Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda ofQuerétaro
*Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl ee also
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Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
*Jesuit Asia missions
*Jesuit Reductions
*Reductions External links
* [http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpcolonial2.html MEXICO'S COLONIAL ERA — PART II: Religion & Society in New Spain]
* [http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/missions/index.html Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert]
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