San Francisco Javier de Satevó (frequently
apocopated to Satevó) is a village in the
Mexican state of
Chihuahua. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of
Satevó.
As of 2010, the town had a total population of 445,
down from 450 as of 2005.
History
San Francisco Javier de Satevó was founded as a
mission
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*Christian mission, an organized effort to spread Christianity
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by the
Jesuit missionary
José Pascual in 1640.
The mission was, however, destroyed in a
Tarahumara revolt in 1652 and not rebuilt until 1674 under Fr.
Juan Sarmiento.
Fidel Ávila,
Governor of Chihuahua
According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, Executive Power in that Mexican state resides with a single individual, the Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, who is chosen ...
in 1914 and 1915, was born in San Francisco Javier de Satevó in 1875.
On 24 December 1918, General
Francisco Villa
Francisco "Pancho" Villa (, Orozco rebelled in March 1912, both for Madero's continuing failure to enact land reform and because he felt insufficiently rewarded for his role in bringing the new president to power. At the request of Madero's c ...
, at the head of a column of some 900 men of the
División del Norte
The División del Norte was an armed faction formed by Francisco I. Madero and initially led by General José González Salas following Madero's call to arms at the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910. González Salas served in Francisc ...
, attacked San Francisco Javier de Satevó. The settlement's defence, comprising 70 men under Pedro Alonso, refused to yield.
The Villistas gradually forced back the defenders into the parish church, to which they set fire before sacking the village.
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References
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Populated places in Chihuahua (state)
Populated places established in 1640
1640 establishments in New Spain