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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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I guess Indian kids went to school while their parents went to work.
I guess Indian kids went to school while their parents went to work.
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The Bishop of Cuba dictated a set of rules for the priests and Indians of Florida
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: Situado and Sabana (ID 82)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID 32)
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Realizing the need to discipline his own diocese, don Juan Garcia de Palacios, Bishop of Santiago de Cuba, convened a Diocesan Synod in Havana in 1684 and promulgated a series of statutes especially for the "newly converted Indians" of the provinces of Florida. Perhaps out of respect for former Bishop Diaz Vara Calderon, he included one statute forbidding the Indians to play ball. Several of the others reflected the changing situation and labor shortage in the colony. Noting with disapproval that "many Spaniards, negros, and mulatos residing in St. Augustine" detained the casados who came to the city "to work or dig" and used them for the service of their houses, not allowing them to live with their wives, the Bishop exhorted those in St. Augustine who had Indians working for them to allow them to hear Mass on the holy days of obligation and to send the Indian children and gentiles they employed to the Convent of St. Francis to be instructed in doctrine. AN221 But the most important statute by far was the sixth one, which read: [W]e command and establish . . . That no religious preach the world of the Holy Gospel, nor administer the holy Sacrament of penance, even though he be in charge of a mission, without having our approbation and license, or that of our predecessors or successors, under pain of suspension from office and others, at our discretion. And that no priest in charge of a mission administer said holy Sacrament, nor the others, without our permission, under the penalty of nullity in their acts" (Garcia de Palacios 1684). Florida Franciscans would successfully evade obeying this statute for the next 64 years. (Bushnell SS)