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THE SPANISH MISSIONS
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Corpus Christi de la Isleta
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Antonio Margil de Jesús,. He departed Spain on March 4, 1683, and arrived at Veracruz on June 6.
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Franciscan priest Damián Massanet left Barcelona to serve as a missionary in the New World
Massanet spent several years building missions in Mexico. Then, in 1690, he accompanied General Alonso De León, governor of the state of Coahuila, to establish a Spanish presence in Texas. In that year, Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was founded near the Neches River. -
founder of the first Spanish mission in East Texas
rossed the Atlantic in 1683 to help found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro. -
Franciscans. After ordination he joined twenty-three of his brethren, who crossed the Atlantic in 1683 to help found the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro.
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he accompanied Gov. Alonso De León in the successful search for René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's Fort St. Louis
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First east texas mission
san francisco de los tejas is created -
1690, he accompanied General Alonso De León, governor of the state of Coahuila, to establish a Spanish presence in Texas.
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mission closed
mission san fransisco de los tejas is closed -
St. Denis sailed from La Rochelle to Louisiana on the second expedition of Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, his relative by marriage. In Louisiana St. Denis commanded a fort on the Mississippi River and another at Biloxi Bay.
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mission founded
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In 1740 the viceroy of Mexico named him colonel of the military companies of Querétaro,
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texas' first recorded hurricane