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Franciscan friars, such as the 16th-century Bishop Diego de Landa, were dispatched from Europe to spread the Christian faith throughout the peninsula, though they were met with some resistance — any similarity between the early Yucatecan churches and military fortresses is not accidental.
On the corner of Ferenciek tere stands the Franciscan Church, constructed around 1758.
Further to the letter of Douglas S. Dodge [XIX, 2,18] regarding tripes á la mode de Caen, please note that the Caen referred to is not the French place name but the name of the San Franciscan writer and journalist, Herb Caen.
Like the décima (ten-line poetic song) and the romance (four-line song), alabados were introduced into the New World by the Franciscan padres, who taught them to the Indian people as they were teaching them the Bible and converting them to Christianity.
These early missionaries, who were led by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra, were all tough and courageous men, who faced hunger and hardship when their first agricultural efforts failed.