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| Surname: Gonzales |
Given Name: Manuel |
Sex: M |
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Order: Jesuit |
| Place of Death: Tubutama |
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| Race or Tribe: Mexicano |
Residence: Oposura |
Title: Misionero (HIS). (BPIGA) |
| Place of Service: Oposura |
Burial Place: Tubutama; Magdalena-in the church beside P. Kino |
Translation: (Spanish - son of Gonzalo) |
| Notes: Padre Manuel Gonzales was born at San Luis Potosà in present-day Mexico in 1645. He came to the missions of Sonora in 1680 and was stationed at Oposura at least as early at 1685. It was he who welcomed Padre Kino upon the latter's arrival in 1687 to open the missions to the PimerÃa Alta. In 1702 Padre Gonzales traveled with Kino to the Gulf of California near the mouth of the Colorado River and returned by what is today known as the "Camino del Diablo." Somewhere enroute he contracted diarrhea and had to be carried on a stretcher from Sonoita to Tubutama. He died there about the middle of March of 1702. Nearly ten years later, on January 31, 1712, his body was reentered by Padre Campos beside the remains of Father Kino at the San Francisco Xavier Chapel in Magdalena. |
