Lorenzo Carranco
Lorenzo José Carranco (1695, in Cholula, New Spain – October 2, 1734 in Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní, New Spain) was a Jesuit missionary.
Biography
Born in Cholulua in 1695, Carranco studied at Puebla and made his novitiate in Tepotzotlán.[1] In 1725, he trained at Nuestra Senora del Pilar de la Paz Airapi in La Paz to take over at Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní. Briefly, he served as a missionary at Todos los Santos, Baja California Sur.[2] In 1727, Carranco succeeded Father Ignacio Maria Napoli at Misión de Santiago.[3] He was killed in the Rebelión de los pericúes at the Misión de Santiago by the Pericúes in a manner similar to Nicolás Tamaral.
References
- ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1886). History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1886-89 (Public domain ed.). History Company. pp. 458–.
- ^ Crosby, Harry (1994). Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768. UNM Press. pp. 398, 405–. ISBN 978-0-8263-1495-6.
- ^ Baegert, Johann Jakob (1979). "Chapter Eight— Of the Death of the Two Jesuit Fathers, Támaral and Carranco". Observations in Lower California. Berkeley: University of California Press.