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Show 524 JESUIT MISSIONS OF SONORA, 1762. condition in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington. Among other original or contemporary authorities, the most important one in With this exhibit of the state of affairs about the close of this apostle's labors it may be interesting to compare the state of the missions in Sonora at the close of the Jesuit period, just before Garces appeared upon the scene. The data for this purpose are conveniently accessible in the tract I have already cited so often in other connections- the Rudo Ensayo, written for the most part in 1762 and completed in 1763; the matter here to be condensed beginning chap, vii, p. 204. I follow the spelling of proper names given in this tract, though they are far from being uniform and are sometimes obviously erroneous. JESUIT MISSIONS OF SONORA IN 1762. All under the jurisdiction of the Visitador de Sonora- Visit odor being the title of the superior of each Missionary Province, because it is his duty to visit the missions under his charge once, twice, or oftener during the triennial period of his administration, as the Provincial does with the Colleges of his Province. Missions 29 in number, divided into 4 Rectorships, viz.: I. St. Francis Borgia: . . . . 8 missions. II. Holy Martyrs of Japan: . 6 " III. St Francis Xavier: . . . . 7 " IV. Lady of Sorrows: & Total 29 The superiors of these four divisions are called Rectors, having the same authority over the missionaries as is given to rectors over colleges. |