Spanish missions in Mexico

Convento de San Agustín de Yuriria.

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, the Southwestern United States, the Florida and the Luisiana, Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines) 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.

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]
• Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del 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.

See also

• Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
• Jesuit Asia missions
• Jesuit Reductions
• List of the oldest churches in Mexico
• Reductions

References

1. "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
2. "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
3. "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
4. "SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO MISSION | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
5. "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. 1922-09-16. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
6. "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
7. "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. 1922-09-16. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
8. "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
9. "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
10. "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.

External links

• Mexico's colonial era — Part II: Religion & Society in New Spain
• Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert