Residence: Guevavi

Race or Tribe:  Español

Notes:  Father  Juan de San Martín was born in Caravaca, Spain in 1670.  He began his novitiate in the Society of Jesus in 1688 in Mexico City and professed his final vows on the Sonoran frontier in 1704.  He was assigned to Guevavi but was forced to stay at San Ignacio because of muddy trails and flooded washes.  He was the first resident Jesuit of Guevavi, 1701, but he lasted only a few months before he became ill and left.  In 1704 he greeted Kino at the villages of San Francisco and La Santísima Trinidad del Pitiquín.  By 1726 he was back on the frontier and served as minister at Arivechi in east-central Sonora for eleven years.  He became Father Procurator for the province of Mexico City in 1737.  He died on 8 December 1748 at the Jesuit College of Espiritu Santo in Puebla.