Residence: Guevavi

Race or Tribe:  Español Criollo (A Spaniard born in Mexico)

Notes:  Father Torres Perea was born in 1713 and died about 1744.  He entered the Society of Jesus in 1729 at age sixteen.  By 1737 he was studying his second year of theology at Colegio Maximo in Mexico City.  Soon after ordination he set out for the missions.  By mid-February, 1741, he was at Guevavi.  He had a very active ministry and offered services to natives of at least eight scattered rancherias, plus four visitas and Bac.  He spent a lot of time in the saddle.  He left Guevavi in the spring of 1744 for Caborca.  His was the only surviving "state of the mission" report .  In his report he suggested several reasons for the decline of the native population - Guevavi's unhealthy climate, sterile women, shamans, and the milk of the women who did deliver, dried up, causing the babies to die.  He was nominated July 8, 1744 for the office of Father Rector of the Rectorate of Los Santos Martires del Japon in Sonora but never assumed the position. He died at Caborca on 8 August 1747.  He was the youngest missionary and the only Mexican-born Jesuit to serve regularly at Guevavi.