Date published: 1994-01-01
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Situado and Sabana (ID82)Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID32)
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1736-01-01 - 1736-12-31
Bishop Tejada was dismayed to find one SA's doctrinas unwalled
THE SERVICE OF THE CONVENT
The built environment of a Franciscan monastery or mission compound called for a church, a convent, a kitchen, and a cool huerta, which was a walled kitchen garden or orchard, often irrigated. In keeping with Spanish ideas of cleanliness, privacy, and status, the entire compound might be enclosed. Don Francisco de San Buenaventura Martinez Tejada, St. Augustine's first resident bishop, was dismayed in the 1730s to find one of the small doctrinas near the city "without regularity or proper form. Up to now it has been wide open," he said, meaning open for wandering animals to dirty. "Now they are putting up a fence" (Martinez Tejada, 1736a).
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