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Show 338 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY his order in 1655, and later was consecrated bishop of Nicaragua, where he died. Other friars who came with Fr. Estevan de Perea were Fr. Garcia de San Francisco y Nuhiga, who founded Socorro and a pueblo of Mansos in 1659, dying in 1673 and buried at Senect; Le aulliren Fr. Antonio de Arteaga, a companion of Fr. Garcia and the founder of Seneci; Fr. Francisco Letrado, who was a missionary among the Jumanos and the Zuni and was killed by gentiles in 1632; Fr. Francisco Acevedo, who built churches at San Gregorio de Abé, Tenabé, and Tabira, dying in 1644. Fr. Francisco Porras and the frailes Gutierrez and de la Concepcion went among the Hopi, where many miracles were worked. Fr. Porras was poisoned on the 28th day of June, 1633. Fr. Geronimo de la Llana died at Quarac in 1659; Fr. Tomas de San Diego died at Oajaca the same year; and Fr. Juan Ramirez, who went to Acoma, where the arrows failed to touch him, and he worked many years, dying in Mexico in 1664; also Fr. Juan de la Torre, who became comisario-general of New Spain and bishop of Nicaragua, where he departed this life in 1663. The names of two governors have come down to us as having ruled in New Mexico between the years 1621 and 1629 ; they are Felipe Zotylo and Manuel de Silva. At this period Fr. Benavides was custodio, and it was represented to the king of Spain that a bish,opric *** was necessary for New Mexico, where 500,000 gentiles had 338 Bancroft, H. H., History of Arizona and New Mexico, note, p. 162, cites as authority the royal order of May 19, 1631, citing the demand of Comisariogeneral Sosa, New Mex. Cédulas, Ms., 1-2; also order of June 23, 1636, on the same subject, and adds that the pope had been asked to grant to some friar authority to confirm pending the election of a bishop. See also Bonilla, Apuntes, Ms., i; as early as 1596 the bishop of Guadalajara claims New Mexico as belonging to his bishopric, N. Mez. Mem., 227. During the time that Fr. Benavides was in New Mexico Don Francisco de Sylvia Nieto was the governor. <A very well executed inscription on the Morro or Inseription Rock commemorates the passage of the Morro by this governor and another his return from the Zuiii pueblos, after having pacified them again and established the permanent missions. The inscription reads: ‘‘Aqui (effaced) nador Don Francisco . . . annuel de Silva Nieto (effaced) que lo ympucible tiene y 4 sujeto su braco yndubitable su balor con los earrso del Rei firo Sefior cosa que Solo el puso en este efecto - De Agosto y seiscientos biente y nueve que (illegible) 4 Cufii pase y la Fé Lleve,’’ which, translated reads: Through here passed the Governor Francisco Manuel de Sylva Nieto, whose valor and unflinching arm have overcome the impossible with the carts of the King our Lord which he alone put in this state August and six hunto Zufii passed and carried the faith thither. ’ The other inscription reads: ‘El Capn Genl de Las Pro... del Nuebo Mexico for el Rey firo Sr paso por aqui de buelta de los Pueblos de Zuii 4 los 29 de dred and twenty-nine Julio del afio de 1629, y los puso en paz 4 su pedimiento Courtesy Bureau American Pottery Ethnology Bowls from Pueblo of Zuni |
