To Sin No More – Franciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683–1830 Rex

To Sin No MoreFranciscans and Conversion in the Hispanic World, 1683-1830\nAuthor(s): David Rex Galindo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503603264, 978-1503603264\nSynopsis\nFor 300 years, Franciscans were at the forefront of the spread of Catholicism in the New World. In the late seventeenth century, Franciscans developed a far-reaching, systematic missionary program in Spain and the Americas. After founding the first college of propaganda fide in the Mexican city of Quertaro, the Franciscan Order established six additional colleges in New Spain, ten in South America, and twelve in Spain. From these colleges Franciscans proselytized Indians in frontier territories as well as Catholics in rural and urban areas in eighteenth-century Spain and Spanish America. \n\n To Sin No More is the first book to study these colleges, their missionaries, and their multifaceted, sweeping missionary programs. By f.