The Missions And Missionaries Of California Volume 4

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. Fr. Duran's Exposition of Mission Affairs.--Shameless Treatment of Aged Missionaries.--Insolence of the Administrators.--Mexican Name Detested.--Recommendations.--Sad Results of French "Philosophy."--Deluded Pagans.--Figueroa Compelled to Issue Confiscation Decree.--The Neophytes under Administrators.-- Californians Worse than Moors and Turks.--Situation in General.--The Americans.--Friars Want to Leave.--Conditions Intolerable.--Fr. Duran to Fr. Rubio. INTO what unworthy relations the poor friars were thrown after the confiscation of the missions, we should never have been able to fully realize were it not for the ever alert and solicitous Fr. Narciso Duran, and for Eugene Duflot Mofras. The latter's observation, made a few years after Fr. Duran depicted the situation, will be utilized in subsequent volumes on the local history of each mission. One year after Fr. Garcia Diego had presented his memorials to the Supreme Government, Fr. Duran, in his usual clear-cut manner, described the conditions in California, his hopes and his fears, and also his determination, to the Fr. Guardian of San Fernando College. Although the precious document covers seven folio pages, and is written in a small hand, it is well to reproduce it in order to afford an exact view of the period immediately following the confiscation. It will be seen that the author corroborates Fr. Diego's statements, and reveals much more that is of the highest interest. Writing under date of September 25th, 1837, the Fr. Prefecto tells Fr. Hidalgo: "It is eight days since I received the report of the chapter held for the election of a guardian and of a comisario-prefecto.1 A few days previous, I forwarded to Your Paternity, in care of Andres Castillero, who sailed...

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