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The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, and Dominicans to spread the Christian doctrine among the local natives. Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of what is today Mexico, the Southwestern United States, the Florida and the Luisiana, Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines) in order to preach the gospel to these lands. In 1533, at the request of Hernán Cortés, Carlos V sent the first Franciscan friars with orders to establish a series of installations throughout the country.

Missions

Further information: Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro

Further information: Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl

Further information: Mendicant monasteries in Mexico

Further information: Spanish missions in Baja California

Further information: Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert

See also: Spanish missions in California
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References

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  2. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  3. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  4. ^ "SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO MISSION | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  5. ^ "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  6. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  7. ^ "SAN JUAN BAUTISTA | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)". Tshaonline.org. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  8. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  9. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
  10. ^ "Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert". Parentseyes.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2012-09-16.

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