Abstract

MARTINEZ AGUILAR, José Manuel  and  CORTES CORTES, Pureza Jaqueline. Foundation, provincial administration, and doctrine of the convent of San Buenaventura de Valladolid. 16^th and 17^th centuries. Sig. his [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.47, pp.8-43.  Epub July 25, 2022. ISSN 1665-4420.

The Franciscan convent of San Buenaventura was founded in the early years of what was then called the New City of Mechuacan, under very adverse circumstances for the emerging Spanish city in the province of Michoacán. Almost at the same time, next to the convent, a school of first letters for Indians and Spaniards was founded. The Franciscans cared for the Indians of the neighborhoods located around the incipient town, as well as for the Spaniards families in the city. To strengthen the capital, the convent was erected in 1565 as head of the Province of San Pedro and San Pablo de Michoacán, where a novitiate college was formally established that supplied missionaries to the west and north of New Spain and the Philippines. At the end of the 16th century, the convent was rebuilt in lime and stone, as a physical evidence of the devotion of Valladolid inhabitants to Franciscan invocations, consolidating itself as the most important of the order in the province.

Keywords : City of Mechuacan; Pedro de Almonacid; Antonio de Lisboa; Franciscan doctrine; province of San Pedro and San Pablo de Michoacán.

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