Alonso de Arrivillaga

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Alonso de Arrivillaga was a Jesuit missionary in New Spain.

Biography[edit]

Arrivillaga served as procurator of the Jesuit missions in New Spain from 1714 to 1715.[1]

In 1715, Arrivillaga was appointed provincial superior, and promulgated a set of twenty-one regulations for the missionaries. Arrivillaga ordered them to limit their chocolate consumption and travel expenses; to shut the door on anyone attempting to discredit the Jesuits; and to require no more than three days a week of labor from the natives outside of harvest time.[2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Segesser, Philipp (April 2014). Thompson, Raymond H. (ed.). A Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora: The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser. University of New Mexico Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-8263-5424-2.
  2. ^ Polzer, Charles W. (1976). Rules and precepts of the Jesuit missions of northwestern New Spain. Tucson : University of Arizona Press. pp. 23–24. ISBN 978-0-8165-0551-7. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  3. ^ Yetman, David (15 November 2010). The Ópatas: In Search of a Sonoran People. University of Arizona Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-0-8165-0109-0.