caa a22 4500 388038349 CHVBK 20180307125013.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1008413 doi S0003161500026420 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1008413 Morales Francisco Collegio S. Bonaventura, Grottaferrata, Rome Mexican Society and the Franciscan Order in a Period of Transition,1749-1859 [Elektronische Daten] [Francisco Morales] Four years before the suppression of male religious orders in Mexico (1859) the Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Ezequiel Montes, asked the provincials to inform him on the number of friars, their activities and their monasteries' properties (December 22, 1855). The data, which began arriving to the Minister in January 1856, provides some of the most complete information on the nineteenth century Franciscans in Mexico. Comparing this data with what is available for the end of eighteenth century we can draw the following comparative table. A quick glance at these figures reveals the great deterioration through which the order had gone in a period of seventy years. From 1786 and 1856 the Franciscans had lost three fifths of their members, two fifths of their monasteries and four fifths of their missions. It can be pointed out as a counterweight that, during the same period, two colleges of Propaganda Fide were founded: Orizaba in 1799, and Zapopan in 1812.l But it also should be noted that during the same time a province disappeared, Yucatan.2 The general conclusion, then, is that in no other period of their presence in Mexico, had the Franciscan Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1998 The Americas Cambridge University Press 54/3(1998-01), 323-356 0003-1615 54:3<323 1998 54 TAM https://doi.org/10.2307/1008413 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1008413 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Morales Francisco Collegio S. Bonaventura, Grottaferrata, Rome NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Americas Cambridge University Press 54/3(1998-01), 323-356 0003-1615 54:3<323 1998 54 TAM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge