Pedro Font

Pedro Front
Born1737 (1737)
Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Died1781 (1782) (aged 44)
San Diego del Pitiquito
OccupationFranciscan

Pedro Font (Pere Font in Catalan, his native language) (1737–1781) was a Catalan Franciscan missionary and diarist.

Biography

Font was born in 1737 in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.[1] He received his training at Querétaro Missionary College.[2]

From 1773 to 1775, Font served at Mission San José de Tumacácori in Pima Country. He was the chaplain of Juan Bautista de Anza's expedition that explored Alta California from 1775 to 1776.[2] Font's diary, With Anza to California, gives the principal account of the expedition;[3] in it, Font describes military governor Fernando Rivera y Moncada using force against a neophyte. Font was involved in Rivera's excommunication.[citation needed]

While on the expedition, Font drew one of the first maps of the San Francisco Bay, naming the mountain range now known as the Sierra Nevada[4] He also identified the site for the proposed Mission San Francisco de Asís, which would be established later that year by Junípero Serra and Francisco Palóu.[2]

Font later served at Mission San José de Imuris,[5] Mission Santa Teresa de Atil, Mission Santa Maria Magdalena, Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama and La Purísima Concepción de Caborca, prior to his death at the visita of San Diego del Pitiquito in 1781.[1]

Writings and legacy

Font described the California grizzly bear, writing, "He was horrible, fierce, large, and fat." Font interacted with Native Americans and observed homosexual behavior and saw a great need for Christianity to eradicate these "nefarious practices."[6]

Font Street, in San Francisco's Parkmerced neighborhood, is named for Pedro Font.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Pedro Font". Tumacacori National Historical Park.
  2. ^ a b c Zephyrin Engelhardt (1912). The Missions and Missionaries of California, Volume II: Upper California. pp. xxix, 173–190.
  3. ^ Nancy J. Olmsted. "The Spanish Presence at Mission Bay, 1775–1833". FoundSF.
  4. ^ Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). "S". Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. San Francisco: Sierra Club. Archived from the original on 2024-05-25.
  5. ^ Roca, Paul M. (1967). Paths of the Padres Through Sonora: An Illustrated History & Guide to Its Spanish Churches. Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. p. 56. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  6. ^ Katz, Jonathan (1976). Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.. Avon Books. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-380-40550-3. OCLC 50381327. Retrieved 1 July 2016. quoted in FitzGerald, Maureen; Rayter, Scott (2012). "Chapter 4 The Regulation of First Nations Sexuality, by Martin Cannon". Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies. Canadian Scholars’ Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-55130-400-7. OCLC 801167318. Retrieved 1 July 2016. Among the women I saw men dressed like women, with whom they go about regularly, never joining the men. From this, I inferred they must be hermaphrodites, but from what I learned later I understood that they were sodomites, dedicated to nefarious practices. ...There will be much to do when the Holy Faith and the Christian religion are established among them."
  7. ^ The Chronicle 12 April 1987 p.7

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