Residence: Guevavi

Race or Tribe:  Sardo (Sardinian)

Notes:  Father Garrucho, born at Castel Aragonese on the island of Sardinia on March 27, 1712,  had black hair, light skin, blue eyes and a sparse beard. He sailed for the New World in 1743 at the age of 32. He arrived in the Pimeria Alta in 1744 and went straight to Guevavi. He professed his final vows on 10 December 1748 at Arizpe.  At Guevavi, he brought in Indians from the rancherias to replace the Indians who had died. He kept the mission ranch at Tubac producing.  He got along well with the gente de razon. The Guevavi mission prospered as never before.  He built a church there in 1751.  He endured longer than any other Jesuit at Guevavi, and made it into a prosperous frontier community. On November 24, 1751, during the Pima Revolt, he fled Guevavi with the stock and most of the santos and church furnishings and never returned.  He went to Oposura to work with the Opatas.  He had to defend himself in court due to the Pima revolt.  He served at Oposura for fifteen years, until the expulsion.  During the expulsion he survived the trip to Spain where he was locked in prison, first at Sant María, and then at Liebana where he eventually died.