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JUAN DE PALAFOX DE MENDOZA (1600-1659)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENDOZA (1600-1659)  , See also:Spanish See also:bishop, was See also:born in See also:Aragon . He was appointed in 1839 bishop of Angelopolis (See also:Puebla de los Angeles) in See also:Mexico, and there honourably distinguished himself by his efforts to protect the natives from Spanish See also:cruelty, forbidding any methods of See also:con-version other than persuasion . In this he met with the uncompromising hostility of the See also:Jesuits, whom in 1647 he laid under an See also:interdict . He twice, in 1647 and 1649, laid a formal complaint against them at See also:Rome . The See also:pope, however, refused to approve his censures, and all he could obtain was a brief from See also:Innocent X . (May 14, 1648), commanding the Jesuits to respect the episcopal See also:jurisdiction . In 1653 the Jesuits succeeded in securing his See also:translation to the little see of Osma in Old See also:Castile . In 1694 See also:Charles II. of See also:Spain petitioned for his See also:canonization; but though this passed through the preliminary stages, securing for Palafox the See also:title of " See also:Venerable," it was ultimately defeated, under See also:Pius VI., by the intervention of the Jesuits . See See also:Antonio Gonzalez de See also:Resende, See also:Vie de Palafox (See also:French trans., See also:Paris, 1690) .

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