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Show PUEBLO REBELLION AND INDEPENDENCE 361 with, and the governor took immediate steps for the defense of his capital. The Indians had resolved upon the utter destruction of the Spanjards. From the pueblo of San Felipe south, all were warned in time to escape, but in all the missions of the north, east and west, only the friar at Cochiti, those at Santa Fé, and one in the province The number slain was over four of Zufi, survived the revolt. hundred, including 21 **° missionaries and 73 men capable of bearing arms. Those who escaped numbered 1,950, including eleven friars and 155 men capable of bearing arms. 369 The Franciscan Martyrs; bulletin no. 8, Historical Society of New Mex- ‘‘That Kingdom (New Mexico) was then, as the Governor ico, pp. 10-11-12: says, in his letter of September 8th of last year, ‘entirely foreign in character from the event which was so soon to occur, judging from the peace and tranquillity which prevailed.’ He speaks of what appeared as the outward cloak Everything seemed to be peaceful outwardly; but inwardly all of hypocrisy. was rabid passion, instigated by the devil; for, on the 10th day of August, dedicated by our Holy Mother Church to the honor of the Most Glorious Spanish Protomartyr, St. Lawrence, the fury of the nefarious sacrilegious wickedness, which had been hidden in the quiver of the heart, suddenly broke forth. ‘On this day, the venerable Padre Fray Juan Bautista Pio, a native of the City of Victoria in the Province of Alaba, having gone to celebrate the holy sacrifice of the Mass at the Pueblo of Tesuque, which is a mission of the City of Santa Fé, the Capital of that Kingdom, was killed by the Indians of that very pueblo. ‘“Thig ig the death which is first mentioned in the authentic accounts of the conspiracy.’ If confederated cruelty was wickedly pursuing innocence it 1s clear that there had to be a Pio as the first target of the arrows which impiety and apostasy shot against the Christian Religion. ‘‘Passing from sacrilege to robbery, they carried away the scanty supplies which the Convento had for its own subsistence, and like the wicked in the Fugite to the mountains. proverb, without knowing who pursued them, they fled mus nemine persequente.—Proverbs 28:1. twenty Conventos distant and different in killed they morning ‘On that same other Religious. ‘‘In Santa Cruz de Galisteo, the Reverend Fathers Fray Juan Bernal, the actual Custodian, and Fray Domingo de Vera, natives of the most noble City of Mexico. ‘‘At San Bartolomé de Xongopavi, the Rev. Padre Fray Joseph de Truxillo, a& man of exemplary virtues, the knowledge of which induced the higher Prelates to elect him First Guardian and Prelate of the Convento of San Cosme without the walls of this city, when it was erected as a memorial, under the title of Nuestra Sefiora de Consolacion. ‘‘At the Convento of Porciuncula, the Rev. Padre Fray Fernando de Velasco, who had served thirty years as a missionary in that Holy Custodia; both of these latter being natives of Cadiz. ‘*In that of Nambé, the Reverend Padre Fray Thomas de Torres, a native of Tepozotlan. native “In that of Ildefonso, the Reverend Padre Fray Luis de Morales, a of Ubeda Sanchez de or Baeza; Pro, and a native in company of this city, with who him, from the brother the Order of Fray the Antonio Descalces |
