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'''Nicolás de Freitas''' (b. 1634) was a [[Franciscan]] [[List of missionaries to New Spain|missionary]] to [[New Spain]].
== Biography ==
Freitas was born in [[Mexico City]] in 1634.<ref name="sheridan">{{cite book |last1=Sheridan |first1=Thomas E. |last2=Koyiyumptewa |first2=Stewart B. |last3=Daughters |first3=Anton |last4=Brenneman |first4=Dale S. |last5=Ferguson |first5=T. J. |last6=Kuwanwisiwma |first6=Leigh J. |last7=Lomayestewa |first7=Leigh Wayne |title=Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679 |date=12 November 2015 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-3243-8 |page=295 |language=en}}</ref> His father, Juan de Freitas,<ref>Also sometimes spelled Fleytas.</ref> was from the [[Canary Islands]]; his mother, Gerónima de Rueda, was native to the area. He entered the Franciscan order on June 4, 1650, and accompanied Governor [[Bernardo López de Mendizábal]] to New Mexico in December 1658.<ref name="scholes2">{{cite book |last1=Scholes |first1=France V. |last2=Simmons |first2=Marc |last3=Esquibel |first3=José Antonio |title=Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693 |date=16 May 2012 |publisher=UNM Press |isbn=978-0-8263-5117-3 |language=en}}</ref> From 1659 to 1660, he served at Mission [[Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción de Quarai]].<ref name="hurt">{{cite book |last1=Hurt |first1=Wesley Robert |title=The 1939-1940 Excavation Project at Quarai Pueblo and Mission Buildings: Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, New Mexico |date=1990 |publisher=Division of History |page=4 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_1939_1940_Excavation_Project_at_Quar/-DelvJe5--cC |access-date=27 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1661, Freitas testified to the [[Holy Office]] in the [[Inquisition]] trial of López de Mendizábal. He recounted a conversation in which López had claimed that the bull {{lang|la|[[Omnimoda]]}} had been revoked, limiting the powers of [[mendicant orders]] in the [[New World]].<ref name="scholes">{{cite journal |last1=Scholes |first1=France |title=Troublous Times in New Mexico, 1659–1670 |journal=New Mexico Historical Review |date=1 April 1937 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=134-174 |url=https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol12/iss2/3/ |access-date=27 April 2024 |issn=0028-6206}}</ref> He also accused López of allowing the local [[Hopi]] to perform their traditional [[Kachina]] dances.<ref name="anderson">{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=Frank G. |title=Early Documentary Material on the Pueblo Kachina Cult |journal=Anthropological Quarterly |date=1956 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=31–44 |doi=10.2307/3316568 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3316568 |access-date=27 April 2024 |issn=0003-5491}}</ref>
Freitas subsequently accompanied López's replacement, [[Diego de Peñalosa]], to Santa Fe, and became ''[[custos]]'' there.<ref name="sheridan" /> In 1706,<ref>Historian John Kessell suggests that the date of 1706 may be an error, and the statement may actually date to 1670.</ref> Freitas testified to Governor [[Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle]] about the likely location of the body of another Franciscan, Geronimo de la Llana.<ref name="ivey">{{cite book |last1=Ivey |first1=James E. |title=In the Midst of a Loneliness: The Architectural History of the Salinas Missions : Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument : Historic Structure Report |date=1988 |publisher=Division of History, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, Southwest Region, National Park Service, Department of the Interior |page=237 |language=en}}</ref>
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'''Nicolás de Freitas''' (b. 1634) was a [[Franciscan]] [[List of missionaries to New Spain|missionary]] to [[New Spain]].
== Biography ==
Freitas was born in [[Mexico City]] in 1634.<ref name="sheridan">{{cite book |last1=Sheridan |first1=Thomas E. |last2=Koyiyumptewa |first2=Stewart B. |last3=Daughters |first3=Anton |last4=Brenneman |first4=Dale S. |last5=Ferguson |first5=T. J. |last6=Kuwanwisiwma |first6=Leigh J. |last7=Lomayestewa |first7=Leigh Wayne |title=Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679 |date=12 November 2015 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |isbn=978-0-8165-3243-8 |page=295 |language=en}}</ref> His father, Juan de Freitas,<ref>Also sometimes spelled Fleytas.</ref> was from the [[Canary Islands]]; his mother, Gerónima de Rueda, was native to the area. He entered the Franciscan order on June 4, 1650, and accompanied Governor [[Bernardo López de Mendizábal]] to New Mexico in December 1658.<ref name="scholes2">{{cite book |last1=Scholes |first1=France V. |last2=Simmons |first2=Marc |last3=Esquibel |first3=José Antonio |title=Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693 |date=16 May 2012 |publisher=UNM Press |isbn=978-0-8263-5117-3 |language=en}}</ref> From 1659 to 1660, he served at Mission [[Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción de Quarai]].<ref name="hurt">{{cite book |last1=Hurt |first1=Wesley Robert |title=The 1939-1940 Excavation Project at Quarai Pueblo and Mission Buildings: Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, New Mexico |date=1990 |publisher=Division of History |page=4 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_1939_1940_Excavation_Project_at_Quar/-DelvJe5--cC |access-date=27 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1661, Freitas testified to the [[Holy Office]] in the [[Inquisition]] trial of López de Mendizábal. He recounted a conversation in which López had claimed that the bull {{lang|la|[[Omnimoda]]}} had been revoked, limiting the powers of [[mendicant orders]] in the [[New World]].<ref name="scholes">{{cite journal |last1=Scholes |first1=France |title=Troublous Times in New Mexico, 1659–1670 |journal=New Mexico Historical Review |date=1 April 1937 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=134-174 |url=https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol12/iss2/3/ |access-date=27 April 2024 |issn=0028-6206}}</ref> He also accused López of allowing the local [[Hopi]] to perform their traditional [[Kachina]] dances.<ref name="anderson">{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=Frank G. |title=Early Documentary Material on the Pueblo Kachina Cult |journal=Anthropological Quarterly |date=1956 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=31–44 |doi=10.2307/3316568 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3316568 |access-date=27 April 2024 |issn=0003-5491}}</ref>
Freitas subsequently accompanied López's replacement, [[Diego de Peñalosa]], to Santa Fe, and became ''[[custos]]'' there.<ref name="sheridan" /> In 1706,<ref>Historian John Kessell suggests that the date of 1706 may be an error, and the statement may actually date to 1670.</ref> Freitas testified to Governor [[Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle]] about the likely location of the body of another Franciscan, Geronimo de la Llana.<ref name="ivey">{{cite book |last1=Ivey |first1=James E. |title=In the Midst of a Loneliness: The Architectural History of the Salinas Missions : Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument : Historic Structure Report |date=1988 |publisher=Division of History, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, Southwest Region, National Park Service, Department of the Interior |page=237 |language=en}}</ref>
== References ==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Freitas, Nicolas de}}
[[Category:1634 births]]
[[Category:Franciscan missionaries in New Spain]]
Okumaya devam et...