Lorenzo Carranco

The martyrdom of Lorenzo Carranco on October 1, 1734.

Lorenzo José Carranco (1695, Cholula, New Spain - October 2, 1734, Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní, New Spain) was a Jesuit missionary.

Biography

Born in Cholulua in 1695, Carranco studied at Puebla and made his novitiate in Tepotzotlán.[1] In 1725, he trained at Nuestra Senora del Pilar de la Paz Airapi in La Paz to take over at Misión de Santiago de los Coras Aiñiní. Briefly, he served as a missionary at Todos los Santos, Baja California Sur.[2] In 1727, Carranco succeeded Father Ignacio Maria Napoli at Misión de Santiago.[3] He was killed in the Rebelión de los pericúes at the Misión de Santiago by the Pericúes in a manner similar to Nicolás Tamaral.

References

  1. ↑ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1886). History of the north Mexican states and Texas. 1886-89 (Public domain ed.). History Company. pp. 458–.
  2. ↑ Crosby, Harry (1994). Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768. UNM Press. pp. 398, 405–. ISBN 978-0-8263-1495-6.
  3. ↑ Baegert, Johann Jakob (1979). "Observations in Lower California". Berkeley: University of California Press. |chapter= ignored (help)
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