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| Surname: Aguirre |
Given Name: Manuel |
Sex: M |
| Place of Birth: Ablitas, Navarra, Spain |
Date of Birth: 05/14/1715 |
Order: Jesuit |
| Place of Death: Magdalena, Jalisco |
Date of Death: 09/25/1768 |
Cause of Death: Death march during the Jesuit Expulsion |
| Race or Tribe: Vizcaino |
Residence: Bacadéguachi |
Title: Misionero (IHS); Secretario del Visitador General, Visitador, y Visitador General; Shipped out of the Port of Guaymas on the Príncipe during the Jesuit Expulsion; Casualty of the Tepic to Guadalajara Death March |
| Place of Service: Bacadéguachi |
Burial Place: Magdalena, Jalisco, México |
Translation: (Basque - meadow) |
| Notes: Padre Aguirre arrived in Sonora in 1748 and was first assigned to Baviácora and later in that year to Caborca. The following year he went to Bacadéguachi where he remained until the expulsion. He served as secretary to the visitador general in 1761, as visitador in 1764 even though he was seriously ill, and as visitador general in 1766 in spite of increasing blindness. He died at Magdalena, Jalisco as a result of the death march through the coastal jungle during the expulsion. He was the sixth of the seven priests whose names appear in the Guevavi and Suamca mission records (Nicolás Perera, Alexandro Rapicani, Francisco Hlava, Juan Nentvig, Pedro Díaz, Manuel Aguirre, and Bartolomé Saenz) to die as a result of that forced march. He was fifty-three years, four months, and eleven days of age at the time. |
