Juan de zumarraga biography of michael

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    Miguel López de Legazpi

    16th-century Spanish conquistador, navigator, and colonial governor (1502–1572)

    Miguel López de Legazpi[a] (12 June 1502 – 20 August 1572), also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo (The Elder), was a Spanish conquistador who financed and led an expedition to conquer the Philippine islands in the mid-16th century.[2] He was joined by Guido de Lavezares, relative Martin de Goiti, friarAndrés de Urdaneta, and his grandsons Juan and Felipe de Salcedo, in the expedition. Legazpi established the first Spanish settlement in the East Indies after his expedition crossed the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Cebu in 1565. He became the first governor-general of the Spanish East Indies, which was administered from New Spain for the Spanish crown. It also encompassed other Pacific islands, namely Guam, the Mariana Islands, Palau, and the Carolinas. After obtaining peace with various indigenous tribes and kingdoms, he made Cebu City the capital

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    Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin, a native to Mexico. He became the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas.

    Following the early death of his father, Juan Diego was taken to live with his uncle. From the age of three, he was raised in line with the Aztec pagan religion, but always showed signs of having a mystical sense of life.

    He was recognized for his religious fervor, his respektfull and gracious attitude toward the Virgin Mary and his Bishop Juan dem Zumarraga, and his undying love for his ill uncle.

    When a group of 12 Franciscan missionaries arrived in Mexico in 1524, he and his wife, Maria Lucia, converted to Catholicism and were among the first to be baptized in the distrikt. Juan Diego was very committed to his new life and would walk long distances to receive religious instruction at the Franciscan uppdrag station at Tlatelolco.

    On månad 9, 1531, Juan Diego was in a hurry to man it to Mass and celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate

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    Protector of the Indians

    Above: the old and new basilicas of Our Lady of Guadalupe. All photos by the author.

    In the year 1527 King Charles V of Spain spent Holy Week at the Franciscan Monastery of Barajo near the city of Burgos in northern Spain. Friar Juan de Zumarraga was the prior of the monastery at this time. So impressed was the King by Friar Zumarraga’s holiness and capabilities that a year later, in 1528, he recommended that he become the first bishop of Mexico.  His official title would be “Protector of the Indians.”

    One might wonder why a Franciscan would be chosen for such a significant and important position out of all the other Orders. According to scholar Father Peter Damian Fehlner in A Handbook of Guadalupe, this should not be a surprise: in his opinion, the spirituality of St. Francis played a “predominant role in shaping the mind and heart of Catholic Spain during the late 15th and 16th centuries” long before Fray Juan de Zumarraga arrived on the scene. Aft

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