... language could be used in lieu of a title. Starting in the 1560s the bishops of Mexico began to keep track of clergy according to their ability to speak a native language. When the system of oposiciones (competitive placement exams) began in the 1580s, candidates for benefices would be tested...

... at the request of the bishop of Nyeri, Charles M. Cavallera (Trevisiol 1989; Zamuner 2001). Some months before Kenya became independent, the Consolata mis- sions were established, an event that shaped the future of the northern part of the country. In a letter thirty years later to Mervyn Maciel...

... unsuitable to such lowly people, and dubious ceremonies. Churchmen, especially the bishops and the other higher clergy, worried about paganism and heresies and about the many unauthorized hermandades (brotherhoods...

... to establish a local mission school to educate their children. In January 1887, thirty-seven wagons of Lower Yanktonai Sioux broke through snowdrifts to reach a humble Catholic mission house on the Crow Creek Reservation. Bishop Martin Marty, Order of Saint Benedict, had recently...

... into the town’s economy and society. Thus, as late as 1891, the Sitka weekly would still say, “After Alaska became part of the Union, most of the Russians went back to the mother country, the Bishop migrated to San Francisco, leaving only three real Muscovites in the diocese. The rest of the congregation...

... a public confronta- tion between the bishop of Chiapas, located on the far northwestern edge of colonial Guatemala, and his elite female parishioners over the consump- tion of hot chocolate during mass. According to Gage, Bishop Bernardino de Salazar complained that the women insisted on drinking hot...

... 4 : 287 -306. 1978 Correlation in Plio-Pleistocene Sequences of the Northern Lake Turkana Basin: A Summary of Evidence and Issues. In Geological Background to Fossil Man . W. W. Bishop, ed. Pp. 421 -40. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. Behrensmeyer, A. K., and L. F. Laporte 1981...

... political sphere, examining his use of networking through letters. Hamon demonstrates the more comprehensive links that his networking created—not just in Métis politics but also in Canadian politics and the confederation process. These letters and networking connected Riel to his family, the Church (Bishop...

..., literature, monuments, and music. She also uses less explored ways of knowing—graffiti, Maurice Bishop’s calling card, an abandoned Cuban plane, and a stained-glass window—which together locate her work between an evidence-based social science account of the revolution and its aftermath and the poetic...

..., a civil servant with long experience in the North. His party included Bishop Brey- nat of the Mackenzie, who, as Conroy explains, “has considerable influence with the Indians in the North” as well as a small detachment of Royal Cana- dian Mounted Police and, at least for a portion of his voyage...

... revolutionary moments in Grenada’s history, and the tragedy that beset it a series of events that, once sparked, resulted in a crisis that spiraled beyond the control of its political actors. (One such event was the People’s Revolutionary Government’s decision to put Prime Minister Maurice Bishop under house...

...). Indeed, each chapter relies on deftly crafted mini biographies of Michoacán’s leaders, whether infamous (Nuño de Guzmán), unknown, or eminent (Bishop Vasco de Quiroga). Chapters on the church and the interminable internecine conflict between regular and secular clergy are among the most interesting...

... the fights. Corregidor Medrano even enlisted Fran- cisco de Rivera, bishop of Guadalajara, to assist him. Rivera observed that the most pressing issue demanding attention in Zacatecas were these cla- shes, “which indigenous people called saçemis and in which they kill one another with great barbarity...

... Vespasian is ill with an unspecified disease. He receives a visit from a Christian minister named Clemente, whose character is based on an early bishop of Rome. Accompanying Clemente is Saint Veronica, who brings the relic that bears her name. This is the healing veil known as the Vernicle. Clemente first...

.... 91 AHDC, carp. 962, exp. 1, Cintalapa III A 1, Episcopal, Provisorato, 1678, fol. 42. 90 Bishop Núñez states that a repentant man will demonstrate his sincerity by “crying and confessing his guilt” (Núñez de la Vega 1988 : 760). 89 AHDC, carp. 268, exp. 1, Jiquipilas III A 1...

... on in the minds of native Andean participants. Corpus Christi celebrations reached an ostentatious peak in Cuzco under Bishop Manuel de Mollinedo y Angulo and it was during his tenure that a famous series of canvases depicting several Cuzco Inka lords in full ceremonial regalia was commissioned...

... Clemente, “Go and com- plain about this to the bishop or the inquisitor. . . . I have the power to burn you alive and I am not afraid. . . . even if four hundred bishops come here I will not dirty my pants out of fear. . . . I am the bishop here.”4 Following this sexual violation, Clemente Ek...

..., ed. 1967 Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the Northwest Coast of America,1794-1799. Cambridge, UK: Hakluyt Society. Rollins, Philip A., ed. 1935 The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart's Narratives of His Overland Trip Eastward from Astoria, 1812-13. New York...

...-century Algonquians (contrary to the opinions of some modern academics, as discussed below), the witiko condition was not a legendary fabrication.17 For example, in early 1896, Richard Young, the Anglican bishop of the Athabasca district, wrote the following in a letter-journal to the “Evangelical...

....” According to the Yalalag yoo lahui, they had been redeemed only through the actions of their powerful alcalde mayor, and not by virtue of Dominican teachings or the bishop’s intervention. Instruction had to be funded through local means, and thus the community mentioned payments that have been made...