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Xavier, Opata de Cocóspera
En veinte y cinco días del mes de Agosto de mil, setecientos, sesenta y nueve, habiendo recibido antes los Joseph de Ímuris, un adulto de nación Opata llamado Xavier, a quien el día doce flecharon los Apaches, viniendo con su Padre Ministro de Cocócpera, de donde era alcalde actual, viudo. A cuyo cuerpo se le dio sepultura el mismo día en el cementerio de la Iglesia de Ímuris. Y para que conste, Yo, el infra escrito Ministro de ella por su Majestad, lo firmo en veinte y seis del sobre dicho mes y año en esta de San Ignacio.
Friale Diego Martín Garcia

Xavier, an Opata from Cocóspera
On August 25, 1769, having previously received the Holy Sacraments of Penance and Extreme Unction, an adult widower of the Opata Nation named Xavier, who was coming here with his Father Minister from Cocóspera on the twelfth when he was shot with arrows by the Apaches, died in the village of San Joseph de Ímuris. He was the present Alcalde of Cocospera, His body was buried the same day [that he died] in the cemetery of the church of Ímuris. For this truth, I the undersigned Minister of the same for His Majesty, sign on the twenty-sixth of the above mentioned month and year in this [Mission] of San Ignacio.
Friar Diego Martín García