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Report on the San Antonio Missions in 1792
Franciscan Missionary College of Zacatecas, releasing missionaries for new
spiritual conquests elsewhere. In fact, he adds, there would be five mission-
aries thus released, if the two who were at Nacogdoches should likewise be
recalled. Nacogdoches was a Spanish settlement and hardly a mission,
though it was so called. The latter suggestion, however, was not carried out
at this time; Franciscan missionaries remained at Nacogdoches until 18 I.'
Father Jose Francisco L6pez of the College of Zacatecas came to Texas
as a young priest in 1767 and was doing missionary work at the La Bahia
missions when Father Gaspar Jos6 de Solis visited them in 1768. For ten
years, i773 to 1783, L6pez had charge of Mission Nuestra Sefiora de la Pu-
risima Concepci6n; and for another decade, 1783 to 1793, he was the mis-
sionary of San Antonio de Valero. He also served as president of the Texas
missions from 1789 to 1793. After the secularization of San Antonio de
Valero on April I I, 1793, he administered the parish of San Fernando until
the end of the year as substitute for the diocesan pastor, who was absent.8
In I794, L6pez returned to the College of Zacatecas and arrived there
on August 6, having served the Texas missions for twenty-seven years. About
two years later, October 23, 1796, at the age of fifty-six he died at the
college.'
Report of Father President, Fray Josd Francisco L6pez to Reverend
Father Guardian and the Venerable Board of Counsellors of the College of
Our Lady of Guadalupe of Zacatecas, on the Missions in His Care.
Since the main purpose of the apostolic institute and its only goal, as pro-
posed by the Sacred Congregation for the erection of the Colleges of the
7Junta of San Fernando de B6xar to Bernardino Vallejo, June 26, 181I, Bexar Ar-
chives; The Zacatecan Missionaries in Texas, 1716-1834, trans. by Benedict Leutenegger,
with a biographical dictionary by Marion A. Habig (Austin, 1973), 124, 150-151. The
report of 1789, Razon y Infome (Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley),
was translated by J Autrey Dabbs and published under the title The Texas Missions in
1785 [sic] in Preliminary Studies of the Texas Catholic Historical Society, III (January,
1940).
'Diario de Narvais, September 29, 1781, September 29, 1782, September, 1784, October
24, 1789 (ACZ); The Solis Diary of 1767 [sic], trans. by Peter P. Forrestal in Prelimi-
nary Studies of the Texas Catholic Historical Society, I (March, 1931), 15-16; Libro de
Casamientos, Misi6n Concepci6n, 1733-1790 (ACSF); Libro de Bautismos, Mission San
Antonio, I703-1783, ibid.; Jho. Fran.co L6pez, parroco, Padr6n de las almas qe ay en
esta Villa de San Fernando, December 31, 1793, Bexar Archives.
"Diario de Narvais, August 6, I794 (ACZ; microfilm, RLSJ); Libro de los Difuntos,
College of Zacatecas, I, No. 166, ibid.; Leutenegger (trans.) and M. A. Habig, The Zaca-
tecan Missionaries in Texas, 1716-1834, p. 127.489
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