Jesuit Priests
Alonso Ignacio Benito Espinosa
Misionero (IHS)

Residence: San Xavier

Race or Tribe:  Español

Notes:  He came to New Spain in 1750 but did not come to the Pimeria Alta until 1753 when his church on the east of the Sierra Madre was secularized.  He served briefly at San Ignacio, Caborca, and Guevavi before being assigned to a permanent station at San Xavier del Bac.  In 1764 he went back to San Ignacio but returned to Bac in January of 1765.  Becoming ill once again he was re-assigned to San Ignacio.  Late in 1765 he was assigned to Átil where he remained until the expulsion.  He was imprisoned at Yuste, Spain, where he remained until his death.
 


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