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ANTONIO MONTESINO

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A Spanish missionary, date of birth unknown; died in the West Indies, 1545. Of
his early life little is known. He entered the Order of St. Dominic and made his
religious profession in the convent of St. Stephen, Salamanca, where in all
probability he studied. He was noted for his exemplary piety, his love of strict
observance, his eloquence, and moral courage. In September, 1510, under the
leadership of Pedro de Cordova, he landed with the first band of Dominicans in
Hispaniola. He was the first, in 1511, to denounce publicly in America the
enslavement and oppression of the Indians as sinful and disgraceful to the
Spanish nation. Being censured for this, he was cited to Spain in 1512, where he
pleaded the cause of the Indians so successfully that the king took immediate
measures towards ameliorating their condition. In June, 1526, with Father
Anthony de Cervantes, he accompanied several hundred colonists under the
leadership of Ayllón to Guandape, probably where the English subsequently
founded Jamestown; or, as some are inclined to think, proceeded even as far as
New York. In either case, however, we are safe in asserting that Holy Mass was
celebrated for the first time in the present territory of the United States by
these Dominicans. On the death of Ayllón (Oct., 1526) the colony abandoned the
country and returned to San Domingo. According to Helps, "Spanish Conquest in
America", he went to Venezuela about 1528 with twenty of his brethren. Nothing
more is known of him except the slight information furnished by a note in the
margin of the registry of his profession in the convent of St. Stephen at
Salamanca, which says: "Obiit martyr in Indiis". He is the author of "Informatio
juridica in Indorum defensionem".


SOURCES

QUÉTIF-ECHARD, SS. Ord. Præd., II, 123; HELPS, Spanish Conquest in America (New
York), passim; MACNUTT, Life of Las Casas (New York), passim; TOURON, Hom. ill.
de l'ordre S. Dominique, IV (Paris, 1747), 245-48; SHEA, History of the Catholic
Church in the United States, I (New York, s. d.), 101-08.


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Schroeder, H.J. (1911). Antonio Montesino. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10534b.htm

MLA citation. Schroeder, Henry Joseph. "Antonio Montesino." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10534b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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