The Dicastery of the Causes of Saints has promulgated a decree recognizing that five Spanish Franciscans were killed “in odium fidei” (“in hatred of the faith”) in 1597 — specifically for defending ...

On Juneteenth this year, people in the San Francisco Bay Area took to the streets to mark the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas learned they were free. That evening, protestors ...

Today, July 1, is the feast day of St. Junípero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan priest who brought Catholicism to California. Lending his name and patronage to countless churches, streets, ...

The Americas has been one of the principal journals of Latin American history since its founding in 1944. It publishes articles and reviews in history and ethnohistory about all geographical regions ...

San Gabriel, California, residents Lucille Aguirre and her son, Dan, look mournfully at the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, which was severely damaged by a fire July 11. The Aguirres have deep family ...

The five Spanish Franciscans, known as the Georgia martyrs, are seen in a painting featured in a video from the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. The friars were martyred between Sept. 14 and Sept. 17, ...

Pope Francis has formally recognized that five Franciscan missionaries ministering in what is now the U.S. state of Georgia were killed for their faith. By signing the decree in the sainthood cause of ...

Since the founding of the mission from which Ventura gets its name, the Spanish Franciscans conscripted Chumash Indians to grow food, cook, make clothes, help build aqueducts and more. Being ...

AMARILLO, Texas — He's the first Catholic martyr in what is now the United States — and hardly anybody knows who he is. But now Franciscan Father Juan de Padilla, who joined the Spanish exploration ...

If you missed it over the summer or fall, there’s still time to explore the remarkable exhibition, “Junípero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions,” at the Huntington Library, Art ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador attends a ceremony to mark the bicentennial of Mexico’s Independence from Spain at the National Palace in Mexico City Sept. 15, 2021. (Credit: Henry ...

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