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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
A Survey of the history of the Franciscan Provinces and Mission Colleges of Hispanic America, particularly of the colonial period, it seems to the writer, will be a contribution to historical scholarship inasmuch as it will point the way for further investigations by those who are devoting or who wish to devote themselves to historical research.
To many others who perhaps have heard only of the Franciscan Missions of California, such an outline will convey a faint idea at least of the magnitude and extent of the missionary work which has been carried on by the sons of St. Francis in the vast Spanish and Portuguese portions of the New World.
1 Der beilige Franz Solano, Apostel von Argentinien und Peru (Johannesburg, Leutesdorf am Rhein, 1938), p. 5. Abridged translation: Saint Francis Solano. Apostle of Argentina and Peru (St. Anthony’s Guild, Paterson, N. J., 1942), p. 1.
2 Handbuch der Geschichte des Franziskanerordens (Herder, Freiburg i. B., 1909), p. 493.
