Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings

Although the forensic encounter with Sepulveda was the most dramatic incident in the latter years of the life of Las Casas after his return to Spain, its conclusion was not foll...

Las Casas was fully conscious of the hostility his mission was bound to provoke, and how odious he would make himself, not only to the colonists, but also to the members of the...

The next few years passed in successful missionary work, without offering any events of particular interest in the life of Las Casas. During this period he composed his work, _D...

As has been heretofore explained, Las Casas perceived that his efforts to obtain support for his project would come to naught, unless it could be made plain to the Council that...

As soon as Zuazo arrived, nearly three months after the Jeronymites, Las Casas immediately lodged against members of the audiencia, an accusation of having encouraged and shared...

In the ever-memorable month of October, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the shores of the New World he had discovered by sailing westward. To this great undertaking Columbu...

Before sailing to take possession of his diocese, Las Casas addressed the following letter of farewell to Prince Philip (afterwards Philip II.), then governing in the name of th...

Rejected by his flock in Chiapa, abused and denounced by the Spanish colonists in America, the venerable Bishop’s arrival in his native country was preceded by accusations inten...

Although held in general detestation in Hispaniola, as a seditious mischief-maker and an enemy of the Spaniards’ interests, there were not wanting some sympathisers who, when La...

Although the Bishop of Chiapa, upon landing in his diocese, determined to follow the dictates of prudence rather than the promptings of zeal in bringing his spiritual subjects i...

In the month of September of the year 1510, the first Dominican friars, four in number, arrived in Hispaniola from Spain under the leadership of their Prior, Pedro de Cordoba, a...

At dawn Las Casas entered the city unnoticed and reached his cathedral, from whence he sent Father Nicola Galiano, one of the clergy, to notify the Council of his arrival and th...

The company of four Dominican monks under their Prior, Pedro de Cordoba, had been increased until their community numbered twelve or fifteen men, the severity of whose rule had...

Some time before the events just recounted, Franciscan friars from Picardy had been sent to the Pearl Coast by the Prior Pedro de Cordoba, under the leadership of Fray Juan Garc...

As the date for the King’s departure from Spain to assume the imperial dignity drew near the opposition to his leaving grew so strong that the question of stopping him by force,...

Everywhere throughout the province of Chiapa, the heart of Las Casas was wrung by a repetition of the same tales of violence and rapacity; women stolen, property wrested from th...

Copies of the New Laws, accompanied by a royal letters of instruction, were sent, not only to the viceroys, governors, and Audiencias in America, but also to the priors of the d...

The Spanish wars against the Moors, no less than the Crusades against the Moslems in the Holy Land, enlisted under the Christian standard the chivalry of Europe, and during the...

The troubles of Las Casas, however, were not yet over, nor did the opposition to his projects relax; on the contrary, the arrival at Barcelona in 1519 of Fray Juan Quevedo, the...

The arrival of Don Nicholas de Ovando’s fleet at Hispaniola was an event of the greatest importance to the colony. The first news that greeted the new arrivals was that of the d...

While matters were at the low ebb described in the preceding chapter, the appearance of a new and unexpected character on the scene brought Las Casas some welcome assistance. Al...

JUAN DE TORQUEMADA, _Monarquia Indiana_, 1614. AGOSTINO DE VETANCOURT, _Teatro Mexicano_, 1698. FRAY DOMINGO MARQUEZ, _Sacro Diario Dominicano_, 1697. J.A. LLORENTA, _Œuvres de...

CASAS APPENDIX I. - THE BREVISSIMA RELACION APPENDIX II. - THE BULL SUBLIMIS DEUS APPENDIX III. - ROYAL ORDINANCES PROVIDING FOR THE DEPARTURE OF LAS CASAS FROM SPAIN AND FOR HI...