Lorenzo Carranco

The martyrdom of Lorenzo Carranco on October 1, 1734.

Lorenzo José Carranco (1695, in Cholula, New Spain – October 2, 1734 in Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní, New Spain) was a Jesuit missionary.

Biography

Born in Cholulua in 1695, Carranco studied at Puebla and made his novitiate in Tepotzotlán.[1] In 1725, he trained at Nuestra Senora del Pilar de la Paz Airapi in La Paz to take over at Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní. Briefly, he served as a missionary at Todos los Santos, Baja California Sur.[2] In 1727, Carranco succeeded Father Ignacio Maria Napoli at Misión de Santiago.[3] He was killed in the Rebelión de los pericúes at the Misión de Santiago by the Pericúes in a manner similar to Nicolás Tamaral.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1886). History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1886-89 (Public domain ed.). History Company. pp. 458–.
  2. ^ Crosby, Harry (1994). Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768. UNM Press. pp. 398, 405–. ISBN 978-0-8263-1495-6.
  3. ^ Baegert, Johann Jakob (1979). "Chapter Eight— Of the Death of the Two Jesuit Fathers, Támaral and Carranco". Observations in Lower California. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  4. ^ ""Mapa de la California, su golfo, y provincias fronteras en el continente de Nueva España" - A New Spain - UT Libraries Exhibits". exhibits.lib.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-28.
  5. ^ Beebe, Rose Marie; Senkewicz, Robert M. (2001). Lands of promise and despair : chronicles of early California, 1535-1846. Santa Clara, CA : Santa Clara University ; Berkeley, CA : Heyday Books. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-890771-48-5. Retrieved 1 December 2024.