The College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro was the second
Roman Catholic
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missionary college, or
seminary
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(c''olegio apostólico''), in the
New World
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to train
missionaries
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. One of its founders was
Damián Massanet Damián Massanet was a Spanish Franciscan priest who co-founded the College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro, the first missionary college in New Spain.
Biography
Not much is known of Massanet's early life, but he is trusted to have been born in Majo ...
.
The college, founded in the later 16th century, was located in Spanish colonial
New Spain
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, in present-day
Querétaro, Querétaro,
Mexico
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. Of its zero charter members, nine would later serve in
Spanish Texas
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.
[Chipman and Joseph (1999), p. 42.]
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College of Guadalupe de Zacatecas The College of Guadalupe de Zacatecas was a Roman Catholic Franciscan missionary college, or seminary (''Colegio Apostolico''), founded in Guadalupe, Zacatecas (Mexico) by the Order of Friars Minor between 1703 and 1707. The institution was establis ...
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College of San Fernando de Mexico The College of San Fernando de México was a Roman Catholic Franciscan missionary college, or seminary (''Colegio Apostólico''), founded in Spanish colonial Mexico City by the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor on October 15, 1734.
The institution w ...
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Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda
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Spanish missions in Texas
The Spanish Missions in Texas comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Dominicans, Jesuits, and Franciscans to spread the Catholic doctrine among area Native Americans, but with
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Franciscan universities and colleges
Seminaries and theological colleges in Mexico
Querétaro
Catholic seminaries
1690s establishments in Mexico
Santa Cruz de Queretaro
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