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 established to provide specific training for priests who were to work among the

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in the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain, present day Mexico and the southwestern United States. Of the thirty-eight Spanish missions in Spanish Texas, including the one in Spanish Louisiana, and the six ''visitas'' (country chapels) on the lower

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, nine missions and all six ''visitas'' were staffed by the College of Zacatecas.

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