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LUIS See also:CANCER (d. 1549) , See also:Spanish missionary to Central See also:America, was See also:born at Barbastro near See also:Saragossa . After working for some See also:time in See also:Dominica and See also:Haiti, he crossed to the mainland, where he had See also:great success in pacifying the See also:Indians whom more violent methods had failed to subdue . He upheld the cause of the natives at an ecclesiastical See also:assembly held in See also:Mexico in 1546, and three years later, on the 26th of See also:June, met his See also:death at their hands on the See also:west See also:coast of See also:Florida . |
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