Spain in the West Author:Eusebio Francisco Kino Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CELESTIAL FAVORS OF JESUS, Most Holy Mary, and the Most Glorious Apostle of the Indies, San Francisco Xavier, Experienced in the New Conquests and New Convers... more »ions of the New Kingdom of Nueva Navarra of this Unknown North America; and the Land-Passage to California in Thirty-five Degrees of Latitude, with the New Cosmographic Map of these New and Extensive Lands which hitherto have been unknown. Dedicated to the Royal Majesty of Philip V, Very Catholic King and Grand Monarch of the Spains and the Indies. TO THE VERY CATHOLIC MAJESTY OF OUR SOVEREIGN, PHILIP V When, six years ago," I received from our Father General, Thirso Gonsales," a most paternal letter of the preceding year, very urgently charging me to continue to write the "Celestial Favors Experienced in These New Conquests and New Conversions," at the same time the father provincial, Francisco de Arteaga (who without my meriting it named me rector of these missions), sent me the very Catholic royal cedula of your Majesty, dated July 17, 1701, in printed form, and inserted in the report which, upon request of the Royal Audiencia of Guadalaxara and by order of your Majesty, was made and printed by Father Francisco Maria Picolo," missionary of California, concerning the prosperous condition of that apostolic conquest and conversion. And since the royal, very Catholic, and most Christian cedula of your Majesty so greatly favors all these new conversions, both of California and of this mainland of Cinaloa and Sonora, and of this Pimeria, through your Majesty's so piously ordering that they be maintained, extended, and encouraged by all possible means, and through your Majesty's so tenderly granting the benign license which, in the year 1697, the Senor Viceroy Don Joseph Sarmiento de Valladares gave to Father 87 That ...« less