Spanish missions in Mexico
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The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of what is today Mexico and what is today the Southwestern United States) in order to facilitate colonization of these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan monks with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.
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[edit] Missions
- Misión La Purísima Concepción de Caborca, in Caborca, Sonora[1]
- Misión San Antonio de Oquitoa, in Oquitoa, Sonora[2]
- Misión San Diagos de Pitiquito Mission, in Pitiquito, Sonora[3]
- Mission San Francisco Solano in Coahuila[4][5]
- Misión San Ignacio de Cabórica, in Sonora[6]
- Mission San Juan Bautista in Coahuila[7]
- Misión San Pedro y San Pablo de Tubutama, in Tubutama, Sonora[8]
- Misión Santa Maria Magdalena, in Sonora[9]
- Misión Santa Rosalía in Camargo, Chihuahua
- Misión Santiago y Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Cocóspera, in Cocóspera, Sonora[10]
- Misión Dulce Nombre de Jesus de Peyotes in Villa Union, Coahuila
- Misión San Andres in Nava, Coahuila
- Misión San Buenaventura de la Consolación in San Buenaventura, Coahuila
- Misión Nuestra Señora de Dolores de la Punta in Lampazos, Coahuila
- Misión San Bernardino de la Candela in Candela, Coahuila
- Misión San Buenaventura in Cuatrocienegas, Coahuila
- Misión Santa Rosa de Nadadores in Nadadores, Coahuila
- Misión San Francisco de Saltillo in Saltillo, Coahuila
- Misión San Miguel de Aguayo in Monclova, Coahuila
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
- Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl
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Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria.
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Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
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Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
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Detail of the Temple of the Convent of San Agustín de Yuriria.
[edit] See also
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[edit] External links
- Mexico's colonial era — Part II: Religion & Society in New Spain
- Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert
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