The Missions of New Mexico, 1776: A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez with Other Contemporary Documents AUTH-3809066 ISBN10: 0692075593

ISBN10: 0692075593

covering events in New England

Publisher: Aurora House

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for which no praise is ever adequate

The Missions of New Mexico, 1776: A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez with Other Contemporary Documents AUTH-3809066 ISBN10: 0692075593Fray Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez, canonical inspector of the missions of New Mexico in 1776, compared most everything in New Mexico to Mexico City, "the delightful and alluring cradle of my birth, for which no praise is ever adequate." And hardly anything measured up. He disparaged the people of New Mexico and the religious art of Spanish immigrant Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco. Then, by an ironic twist later in 1776, Dom nguez found himself on a five