Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER CLXXIV
- CHAPTER CLXXV
- CHAPTER CLXXVI
- CHAPTER CLXXVII
- CHAPTER CLXXVIII
- CHAPTER CLXXIX
- CHAPTER CLXXX
- CHAPTER CLXXXI
- CHAPTER CLXXXII
- CHAPTER CLXXXIII
- CHAPTER CLXXXIV
- CHAPTER CLXXXV
- CHAPTER CLXXXVI
- CHAPTER CLXXXVII
- CHAPTER CLXXXVIII
- CHAPTER CLXXXIX
- CHAPTER CXC
- CHAPTER CXCI
- CHAPTER CXCII
- CHAPTER CXCIII
- CHAPTER CXCIV
- CHAPTER CXCV
- CHAPTER CXCVI
- CHAPTER CXCVII
- CHAPTER CXCVIII
- CHAPTER CXCIX
- CHAPTER CC
- CHAPTER CCI
- CHAPTER CCII
- CHAPTER CCIII
- CHAPTER CCIV
- CHAPTER CCV
- CHAPTER CCVI
- CHAPTER CCVII
- CHAPTER CCVIII
- CHAPTER CCIX
- CHAPTER CCX
- CHAPTER CCXI
- CHAPTER CCXII
- CHAPTER CCXIII
- CHAPTER CCXIV
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B
- FIFTH LETTER OF HERNANDO CORTES TO THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER CCIX
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER CLXXIV
- CHAPTER CLXXV
- CHAPTER CLXXVI
- CHAPTER CLXXVII
- CHAPTER CLXXVIII
- CHAPTER CLXXIX
- CHAPTER CLXXX
- CHAPTER CLXXXI
- CHAPTER CLXXXII
- CHAPTER CLXXXIII
- CHAPTER CLXXXIV
- CHAPTER CLXXXV
- CHAPTER CLXXXVI
- CHAPTER CLXXXVII
- CHAPTER CLXXXVIII
- CHAPTER CLXXXIX
- CHAPTER CXC
- CHAPTER CXCI
- CHAPTER CXCII
- CHAPTER CXCIII
- CHAPTER CXCIV
- CHAPTER CXCV
- CHAPTER CXCVI
- CHAPTER CXCVII
- CHAPTER CXCVIII
- CHAPTER CXCIX
- CHAPTER CC
- CHAPTER CCI
- CHAPTER CCII
- CHAPTER CCIII
- CHAPTER CCIV
- CHAPTER CCV
- CHAPTER CCVI
- CHAPTER CCVII
- CHAPTER CCVIII
- CHAPTER CCIX
- CHAPTER CCX
- CHAPTER CCXI
- CHAPTER CCXII
- CHAPTER CCXIII
- CHAPTER CCXIV
- APPENDIX A
- APPENDIX B
- FIFTH LETTER OF HERNANDO CORTES TO THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
After getting rid of the idolatries and all the evil vices they practised, it pleased our Lord God that with his holy aid and with the good fortunes and the holy Christianity of our most Christian Emperor Don Carlos of Glorious Memory, and of our King and Lord the felicitous and invincible King of Spain, our Lord Don Felipe, his much loved and cherished son (May God grant him many years to live with an increase of more kingdoms, so that he may enjoy them in this his holy and happy [life-]time), there were baptised, after we conquered the country, all, both men and women, and children who have since been born, whose souls formerly went, lost, to the Infernal regions. Now there are many and good monks of [the order of] Sefior San Francisco and of Santo Domingo and of other Orders, who go among the pueblos preaching, and, when a child is of the age our holy Mother Church of Rome ordains, they baptise it. Furthermore, through the holy sermons preached, the Holy Gospel is firmly planted in their hearts, and they go to Confession every year, and some of them, who have most knowledge of our holy faith, receive the Sacrament. In addition to this they have their Churches richly adorned with altars and all pertaining to the holy divine worship, with crosses and candlesticks and wax tapers and chalice and patens and silver plates, some large and some small, and censers all worked in silver.
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- The True History of the Conquest of New Spain , pp. 265 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1916