Race or Tribe:  Español (Spanish)

Notes:  Padre Díaz was born in May of 1736, but the exact day is unknown at this time.  He went to Querétaro in 1763 from where he was transferred to the Pimería Alta in May of 1768.  He served at Tubutama and was later stationed at Caborca, from where he left on the exploratory expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza to Alta California in 1774.  Returning from there he was sent to Baja California where he became president of those missions in 1775. He was later assigned to assist Padre Garcés in establishing the missions on the Colorado River. One of four missionaries to die in the massacre near present day Yuma, Arizona (Francisco Garcés, Juan Barreneche, José Moreno, and Juan Díaz), he was killed on July 17, 1781.