Abstract

RIOS ZUNIGA, Rosalina. From orphans of the kingdom to orphans of the homeland. The Colegio de San Juan de Letrán de México and its assistance to orphanage (1822-1867). Debates hist. [online]. 2020, vol.8, n.2, pp.163-199.  Epub June 20, 2022. ISSN 2594-2956.  https://doi.org/10.54167/debates-por-la-historia.v8i2.521.

This work seeks to analyze how the Colegio de San Juan de Letrán in Mexico City, founded in the XVIth Century with the aim of providing housing and schooling to orphans, continued with this objective until its closing in 1867. In spite of the changes in this institution, it continued offering scholarships to poor orphans who in fact were part of an incipient and impoverished middle class who in the XIX century were part of the Creole. This condition resulted from a critical and complex crisis in Mexico. The problem was analyzed based on scholarship requests sent by parents, uncles or aunts, or close relatives to the authorities in order to get support from the college to continue the education of these children. Senders of these letters emphasized the services rendered to the Mexican Republican similar to the way it was done when the support was requested in the name of the services provided to the Spaniard kingdom.

Keywords : Scholarships; Colegio de San Juan de Letrán; orphans; 19th Century; Mexico.