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.

References

↑ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1886). History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1886-89 (Public domain ed.). History Company. pp. 458–.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

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[Bancroft1886-1] Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1886). History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1886-89 (Public domain ed.). History Company. pp. 458–.

[Crosby1994-2] 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.

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