| Notes: Padre López was born about 1766 and raised in Madrid. He studied three years of philosophy and two of theology before entering the Franciscan Order in Toledo at age nineteen and a half. Still a deacon in 1789, he joined the mission to the College of Querétaro from the convento in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid. He was small, swarthy, and smooth chinned with black hair and beard, and blue eyes, the left one somewhat divergent. He was two years Padre Bordoy's junior. The two arrived at Tumacácori in February of 1796 to replace Padre Gutiérrez, and López was made interim chaplain at the Tubac Presidio. López and Bordoy soon found themselves at odds with each other. Raised in the Court of Madrid, López, hated the mission food and ate little. This made him weak, sickly, and ill tempered. The two missionaries were advised to put aside their differences. Bordoy did hire another cook, but after one week, López fired her. Padre López left Tumacácori without regrets on 29 May 1797, after having suffered almost continuous fevers in the year and three months he had been there. He went to Átil, but his health did not improve there, so he was moved to Caborca in October of 1798. He asked to retire to the College of Querétaro and left Caborca in 1800, having had all he could stand of the missions on the northern frontier. |
