To Sin No More

In 1682 the first of twenty-nine Franciscan Colégios Apostólicos de Propaganda Fide was founded in Querétaro, in Mexico (New Spain). Other colleges were later established in South America (ten) and Mexico (seven), as well as in Spain (seven)—about half of them in the second half of the eighteenth century. Hundreds of Franciscan friars trained in these colleges and made them the hub of further missionary expansion in the Iberian peninsula and in Spanish America. In his 2010 doctoral dissertation, David Rex Galindo examined the case of Querétaro and the colleges of New Spain. He then enlarged his view to include a sample of other colleges, with particular reference to Bolivia (Tarjia), Texas, and Spain. To Sin No More is the result of this productive, albeit selective, archival research. The book discusses the colleges’ structure and organization, their relationship with the Franciscan Order and the Spanish Crown, their recruiting policy, the friars’ motivations, instruction, language proficiency, daily life, and conversion programs. This is the first such comprehensive examination

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