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| Surname: Espinosa |
Given Name: Alonso Ignacio Benito |
Sex: M |
| Place of Birth: Canary Islands |
Date of Birth: 02/01/1720 |
Order: Jesuit |
| Place of Death: Yuste, Spain |
Date of Death: 09/21/1786 |
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| Race or Tribe: Español |
Residence: San Xavier del Bac; Átil |
Title: Misionero (IHS); Shipped out of the Port of Guaymas on the Príncipe during the Jesuit Expulsion; Shipped out of Veracruz on the Princesa Ulrrica |
| Place of Service: Pimeria Alta; Guevavi |
Burial Place: Yuste, Spain |
Translation: (Spanish - spiny, thorny) |
| Notes: He entered the Jesuit order on August 14, 1750 and came to New Spain that same year. He did not come to the Pimería Alta until 1753, however, when his church on the east of the Sierra Madre was secularized. He served briefly as San Ignacio, Caborca, and Guevavi before being assigned to a permanent station at San Xavier. In 1764 he went back to San Ignacio but returned to Bac in January of 1765. Becoming ill once again, he was re-assigned to San Ignacio. Late in 1765 he was assigned to Átil where he remained until the expulsion. He was imprisoned at Yuste, Spain, where he remained until his death. He was sixty-six years, seven months, and twenty-one days of age when he died. |
