Jesuit Priests
Francisco Gonzalvo
Misionero (IHS)

Residence: San Xavier del Bac

Race or Tribe:  Valenciano

Notes:  There is not an exact birth date for Padre Gonzalvo.  He died at four in the morning at the age of twenty-nine.  He came to the New World from Spain with Father Campos.  He had been serving at San Xavier del Bac but came to Father Campos' house sick and died soon after.  Father Campos recorded the following at his burial: "On the Day of San Lorenzo, August 10, 1702, at four in the morning, Padre Francisco Gonsalvo, died at the age of twenty-nine having religiously received all the Holy Sacraments.  He was a Valenciano by nation and we came here together from Spain.  Being the missionary at San Francisco Xavier del Bac, he came here sick to my house and died from a cold.  He used good judgement until the very end, continuing in acts of faith, hope, and charity and was very much in conformance with the will of God, Our Lord.  He is burried in this church on the Gospel side of the Sanctuary."
 



 


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