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Example sentences for: missionaries

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The missionaries remained active well into the 19th century, and encouraged Spanish settlers by establishing California’s first towns, the pueblos.
(Call us “missionaries” to make it simple.)
Like colonials everywhere, their missionaries sometimes brought more religion, their traders more alcohol, and their soldiers more guns than the natives really needed.
Seeing in Christianity a threat to his central authority, Hideyoshi systematically suppressed Christian activity; in 1597 six missionaries and 20 Japanese converts were crucified at Nagasaki.
It is the most extensively and authentically restored of California’s 21 Franciscan missions, and the old pink-and-white adobe walls provide a haven of peace amid the former living and working quarters of missionaries, soldiers, and Native Americans.