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The Franciscan University of Celaya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Pius Barth O.F.M.
Pius Barth O.F.M.*
Affiliation:
Quincy College, Illinois
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Extract

The founding of the College of St. Francis at Celaya, near Querétaro in Mexico, later to achieve the status of a Royal and Pontifical University, offers an excellent example of the Franciscan Order’s internal conflict between the strict observance of poverty and its willingness to administer higher educational institutions on a permanent basis.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , July 1945 , pp. 51 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1945

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References

1 Fr.de la Rea, Alonso O.F.M., Crónica de la orden de N. Seráfico P. San Francisco, Provincia de San Pedro y San Pablo de Mechoneán en la Nueva España, (Second edition, Mexico, 1882), pp. 296–297.Google Scholar

2 Ibid.

3 Arnett, Trevor, College and University Finance, pp. 24–53. (New York: General Education Board, 1922).Google Scholar

4 Fr.Ilg, John O.F.M., Explanation of the Rule of the Friars Minor, pp. 106–109. (Chicago: Privately printed, 1927).Google Scholar

5 El Breve fecha en Roma en Santa María la Mayor … en quinze dias del mes de octubre del año de mil seiscientos y veinte y quatro del pontificado, año segundo de nuestro santíssimo padre pontífice Urbano octavo, 15 de 8e de 1624, Fols. 16. Certified printed Latin and Spanish copy, April 15, 1725; Sello Quarto, un quartillo, años de mil setecientos y veinte y siete y veinte y ocho, num. 29, caja 92, leg. 1, Departamento de Manuscritos, Estampas, e Iconografía, Biblioteca Nacional, México.

6 Ibid.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid.

9 Ibid.

10 Rea, op. cit., pp. 299–300.

11 Memorial, in El Breve … of Pope Urban VIII, above-mentioned, fols. 12 (v.)-13 (r.).

12 Ibid., fols. 13 (r.) -14 (r.).

13 Ibid., fols. 13 (v.) -14 (r.).

14 Rea, op. cit., p. 297.

15 Respuesta Fiscal, in the above-cited El Breve … fols. 14 (v.) -15 (r.); confer also, Recopilación de Leyes de los reynos de Indias, Libro primero, título veinte y dos, ley tercera. (En Madrid: Por Julián de Paredes, 1681).

16 Ibid., fol. 15 (r.).

17 Ibid., fols. 14–15.

18 Fr.Rodríquez, Vicente O.F.M., “La real y pontificia universidad de Celava (1624–1859),” Paz y Bien, I, No. 2 (July, 1944), 47–52.Google Scholar (Celaya, Guanajuato, México). Cf. also Ocaranza, Fernando: Capítulos de la Historia franciscana (1a serie, México, 1933), pp. 283–287.Google Scholar

19 Rodríguez, op. cit., p. 50.

20 Ibid.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid., p. 51.

23 Ibid.