The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 51, July 1947 - April, 1948 Page: 39
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Bishop Marin de Porras and Texas
he addressed a long letter to the ecclesiastical authorities at Mon-
terrey, requesting forgiveness. Both the bishop and General
Joaquin de Arredondo granted Father Gutierrez de Iara the
pardon he had requested.52
The last public act of the bishop that is known was that of
taking part in the electoral council of Monterrey, which met on
February 13-20, 1814. As a member of -this council, he had a
part in the election and the establishment of the first provincial
deputation in the Eastern Interior Provinces."
Bishop Marin de Porras died in Monterrey, on November 12,
1815. He was buried in the cathedral there with all the honors
and ceremony due his position. As he had said in some of his
letters, he was ever zealous in serving his king and his God. And
he never lost his love for Texas, a love and admiration which
in 1805 caused him to write the following ode to Texas:
Dios te salve, tierra de Texas,
Do Natura, con hermosuras,
Antes no conocidas se mostr6:
Aqui la mano divina
Que todo lo ordena,
Con mas complacencia se par6.
El llano de tus Verdes prados,
De mil colores esmaltados,
Con la quietud del vasto mar
Y horizonte imenso
Se revela estenso
Quando se ve el Sol rayar.
Tu sierra Madre al Oriente
Opone su superba frente,
Y al pie de cada ramal
Serpean reveladas
En picos y canadas
Preciosas vetas de metal.
2Gonzlez, Obras completas, III, 212, 221.
,aLibro de actas de las juntas electorales de parroqufa de partidas y de plo.
vincias, Ano de 1814, MS. in the Archivo General del Gobierno del Estado de
Nuevo Leon, Legajo No. 1, 1814.
54Juan Ysidro Campos, Jos6 Vivero and Pedro de Hombre to D. Jos6 Varela,
vincias, Ano de 1814, MS. in the Archivo General del Gobierno del Estado de
Monterrey, November 21, 1815, in Bexar Archives at the University of Texas.
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