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Letter of Fray Juan Del Hierro, Minister General of the Franciscan Order, to the mexican Consulado (Madrid, May 11, 1613), Regarding the Missions of Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

José M. Pou y Martí O.F.M.
José M. Pou y Martí O.F.M.*
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Pontificium Athenaeum Antonianum, Rome, Italy
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The Americas , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , January 1952 , pp. 353 - 356
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1952

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References

1 Cf. Pérez, Lorenzo O.F.M., in Archivo Ibero-Americano (Madrid), XXII (1924), 359.Google Scholar

2 Ossino, S. Augustino da, Storia dei 23 Martyri giapponesi (Roma, 1862)Google Scholar.

3 Cuevas, Mariano S.J., Historia de la iglesia en México (5 vols.; El Paso, Texas: Editorial “Revista Católica,” 1928), II, 459–476.Google Scholar

4 Pages, Leon, Histoire de la religion chrétienne au Japon (Paris, 1869), p. 178 Google Scholar; Pérez, L., Archivo Ibero-Americano, XXII (1924), 381 Google Scholar.

5 Regarding this religious, see Archivo Ibero-Americano, I, 567; IV, 446, 450; VI, 285, 300, 384; XII, 456; XXII, 357, 381.

6 Though the Philippine Islands were, from 1597, a foundation of the discalced Franciscan missionaries, afterwards known as the Alcantarines, and were erected into a province in 1586, still there were friars from other branches there also.

7 Cf. Archivo Ibero-Americano, X (1918), 130 Google Scholar, note.

8 Archivo Ibero-Americano, I (1914), 567.Google Scholar

9 The consulado of Mexico was an association of all merchants of New Spain, founded by royal charter in 1590. For information regarding its nature and activities, see Smith, Robert S., “The Institution of the Consulado in New Spain,” Hispanic American Historical Review, XXIV (1944), 61–83 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The Mexican consulado had been very interested in trade with the Orient for two decades before the date of this document. The Franciscans had been in very close contact with this organization from its inception, a friar having celebrated the inaugural Mass at its foundation. The governing body of the consulado was composed of officials called prior and cónsules. The whole body of membership was called the universidad.

10 This religious, while Provincial of the Spanish Province of Los Angeles in Estremadura, was elected Minister General of the Order in the General Chapter of 1612, held in Rome, but he held office for only seventeen months and died on November 1, 1613. See Chronologia Storico-Legalis (Naples, 1650), I, 537.

11 Archivo Ibero-Americano, X (1918), 130 Google Scholar, note.