Luís María Gallardi
Luís María Gallardi (d. 1736) was a Jesuit missionary to New Spain.
Biography
Gallardi, a Sicilian,[1] arrived in the Pimería Alta in 1720, joining fellow missionaries Eusebio Kino, Agustín de Campos, and Luis Xavier Velarde.[2] He was assigned to the Caborca mission for two years, before relocating in 1722 to Mission Santa María Magdalena.[3] In 1725 he became the administrator of the Altar River valley, and accordingly relocated to San Ignacio.[3][4]
Gallardi moved again in 1727 to Tubutama, where he served for the rest of his life. A 1730 account describes Gallardi punishing two of the native Pima, and the natives retaliating by shooting arrows into Gallardi's room while he slept.[5] Juan Bautista Grazhoffer assisted Gallardi at the mission for a few months, leaving in 1732.[6] Gallardi died in Tubutama on January 1, 1736.[3]
References
- ^ Kessell, John L. (1969). Mission Los Santos Angeles de Guevavi: Jesuits on the Pima Frontier, 1691-1767, by John L. Kessell. University of New Mexico. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Hammond, George (1 July 1929). "Pimería Alta after Kino's Time". New Mexico Historical Review. 4 (3): 222. ISSN 0028-6206. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ a b c Officer, James E. (1993). "Kino and Agriculture in the Pimeria Alta". The Journal of Arizona History. 34 (3): 287–306. ISSN 0021-9053. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Brenneman, Dale S. (2014). "Learning the Landscape: The O'odham Acclimation of Father Agustín de Campos". Journal of the Southwest. 56 (2): 269–291. ISSN 0894-8410. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Ives, Ronald L. (1948). "The Sonoran Census of 1730". Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. 59 (4): 319–339. ISSN 0002-7790. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
- ^ Kessell, John L. (1970). Mission of sorrows; Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas, 1691-1767. Tucson, University of Arizona Press. pp. 45–53. ISBN 978-0-8165-0192-2.