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VICO, Domingo de (ve'-co), Spanish missionary, born in Ubeda, Andalusia, in 1485; died in 1555. He became a Dominican in his native city, studied in Salamanca, and in 1516 came to this country with Bartolome de las Casas. He first labored among the Indians in Cuba, but later passed to New Spain, and accompanied Las Casas in his journeys through Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Peru. When the latter was appointed bishop of Chiapa in 1544, Vico became his vicar-general and seconded him in his zeal for the welfare of the Indians. Later he was prior of the convents of Guatemala, Chiapa, and Coban, founded the city of San Andres, and became in 1552 the first bishop of Vera Paz. He was killed, during a journey through his diocese, by Lacandon Indians. His works include several treatises on theology in the Vera Paz, Cakchiquel, Quiche, and Lacandon dialects, and "Historia de los Indios, sus fabulas, supersticiones, costumbres, etc.," which the historian Antonio Remesal says is remarkable for its pictures of Indian life, but the manuscript of which was not found when the libraries of the convents came into the possession of the state.
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