map of new mexico and arizona Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/map-of-new-mexico-and-arizona Mon, 30 May 2016 13:14:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Map of New Mexico http://toursmaps.com/map-new-mexico.html http://toursmaps.com/map-new-mexico.html#respond Tue, 31 May 2016 20:25:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204915 New Mexico NOTABLE LATINOS Benavides, Alonso de (c. 1570-c. 1636). Benavides was the founder of the Franciscan mission to New Mexico and, by extension, the founder of the Catholic Church in New Mexico. There had been a few peripatetic friars in New Mexico prior to the arrival of Benavides, but he was the first permanent leader of the Franciscan mission. He acted as the Inquisition’s representative (comisario) in New Mexico, brought the image of La Virgen Conquistadora to Santa Fe, and wrote the earliest chronicle of missionary activity in New Mexico. Benavides was born in the Azores in the late

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