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Show 242 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY Of no less noble and fearless character was the Fray Luis de Escalona. Among the first to participate in the conflict with the natives at Hawaikih, he too wished to remain so that he could ‘raise crosses for those villagers with a chisel and adze and would baptize several poor creatures who could be led, on the point of death, so as to send them to heaven.’’ This friar selected solos trato el pardre Fr. Juan de Padilla con los Tiguex, el fin que le movia 4 quedarse ellos, que no era otro que el de tratar de la salvacion de sus almas; que ya los soldados se habian ido, que no les serian molestos, que el pasaba 4 otras poblaciones y les dejaba al padre Juan de la Cruz para que les fuese intruyendo en lo que debian saber para ser cristianos é hijos de la Santa Iglesia, como necessario para salvar sus almas, que les tratasen bien, vy que el procuraria volver & consolarles; despidese con gran tenura, dejando, como prelado, Ileno de benediciones, 4 Fr. Juan de la Cruz, y los indios de Tiguex sefialaron una escuadra de sus soldados que guiasen 4 dichos padres Fr. Juan de Padilla y Fr. Luis de Ubeda hasta el pueblo de Coquite, en donde les recibieron con demonstraciones de alegria, y haciendo la misma recomendacion por el padre Fr. Luis de Ubeda, le dej6, y guiadé de otros naturales del mismo pueblo, salid para Quivira con Andrés del Campo, donados indizuelos y el muchacho mestizo; llego 4 Quivira y se postro al pie de la cruz, que hallo en donde le habia colocado; y con limpieza, toda la cireunferencia, como lo habia encargado, de que se alegro, y luego comenzo a hacer los oficios de padre maestro y apostol de aquellas gentes; y ahlandolos dociles y con buen animo, se inflamo, su corazon, y le pareciéd corto numero de almas para Dios las de aquel pueblo, y trato de ensanchar los sefios de nuestra madre la Santa Iglesia, para que acogiese 4 cuantos se le decia haber en mayores distancias. ‘*Salid de Quivira, acompafiado dc su corta comitiva, contra voluntad de los indios de aquel pueblo, que le amaban como 4 su padre, mas 4 una jornada le ae pa indios de guerra, y conociendo mal 4nimo de aquellos barbaros, le rogo a — ety iba 4 caballo huyese, y que en su conserva levase aquellos y muchachos, que como tales podrian correr y escaparse; hicieronlo asi por no hallarse capaces de otro modo para la defensa, y el bendito padre, hincado de rodillas afrecio la vida, que por reducir almas 4 Dios tenia sacrificada, logrando los ardientes deseos de su corazon, la felicidad de ser muerto flechando por aquellos indios barbaros, quienes le arrojaron en un joyo, cubriendo el cuerpo con inumerables piedras. Y vuelto el Portugues ] ‘ dizuelos 4 ivi dieron la noticia, la que sintieron h 5 sitaraiba® Cantal ee tenian 4 dicho y mas ht lo siae Giveoe Sn 9 naturales; por ol/ninon a be initia: ce padre ls “deg si hubieran tenido pleno conocimiento Sibviactaber aia 3 e ° 1a de su muerto, aunque si se tiene por Sido en el afio de 1542; y en algunos papeles dej6 itos D. Pedro de Tovar en la villa de Culia can, Sse dice i Sti Wiscenter tidbits Helou habian ; hawewc ean queSeleh los indios salido a ito padre, por robar los ornamentos ue habia memoria de que englobos su muerte se vieron grandeses prodigios, verse ig de fuemo co ae ae como fue inundarse la tierra, ae nie Nee = sr nah atti rs . ‘<Del padre Fr Juan de | On oie aun. trabajado en la instr uccion deeo ne bayjé los d ot €8, que habian visto la veneracion con que el ae yh se ti y soldados trataban. El padre, Fr. Luis de Ubeda se manaa. . ra a en donde le ministraban los indios, con ig mr as y frijoles, el limitado sustento, y no se supo de su 7 81 quedo entre cuantos le conocieron la memoria de su perfecta vida.’’ FRANCISCO VASQUEZ CORONADO 243 the pueblo of Cicuyé as the scene of his future labors, and being known in the army and among the Indians and servants as a ‘‘mui santa persona,’’ several of the Mexican Indians and negroes determined to remain with him. The friars were ready and anxious to start on their journey, and for that purpose Coronado furnished them with an escort which accompanied them as far as Cicuyé. Everything that was needed for the celebration of mass was given to the friars, besides some trinkets, which it was intended to use in maintaining the good will of the Indians. When they arrived at Cicuyé, the friars were gladly received by the inhabitants. Friar Luis remained at Cicuyé, and the last that was ever heard of him came through some soldiers, who, before the army left Tiguex for Hawaikth, had gone to Cicuyé ‘‘to take him some sheep that were left for him to keep, met him as he was on his way to some other villages that were fifteen or twenty leagues from Cicuyé, sent word to the the village and complained that believed, would It is a the true of their ous; no accompanied by some followers.’’ The friar army that he felt very hopeful that he was liked at that his teachings would bear fruit, although he the old men were falling away from him, and, he finally kill him. difficult matter for the present age to understand or realize character of these missionaries, or to appreciate the quality courage. Physically, their courage was something marvelsoldier, officer, or man could exceed them, for theirs was based upon an implicit and unwavering faith in the doctrines of Christianity. Imbued with the ideas which they had, they gloried in the destruction, at their own hands, of the temples of idolatry which the natives used for their worship. Salmeron, As is said by Fr. Zarate- ‘‘It is worth consideration that there has been no corner discovered in this New Spain in which the first Columbus was not a fraile of Saint Francis. They have ever been first to shed their blood, that with such good mortar the edifice should be lasting and eternal.’’ While it was not the policy of the Spanish government to send these missionaries to the New World purely from philanthropic motives, still as far as the friars themselves were concerned, their work was simply the salvation of souls. The friar Luis, whose gown was pierced by the hostile arrow, was only one of hundreds who succeeded him, possessing the courage and qualities of a sol- |