LOAYZA, or LOAYSA, Jeronimo de (lo-i'-sah),
Spanish-American bishop, born in Trujillo, Spain, about 1500; died in Lima,
Peru, in 1575. He belonged to one of the noblest families in Spain, and at an
early age entered the College of Saint Paul of Cordova, where he joined the
Dominican order, and went to the College of St. Gregory in Valladolid to finish
his studies.
He embarked for America in 1526. Carthagena was assigned
him as a field of missionary labor, and he devoted himself zealously to the
conversion of the natives, and, notwithstanding the extreme heat of the climate
and dangers of every kind, he visited the barbarous tribes along the coast,
converting many of them to Christianity.
After five years he returned to Spain to defend the
Indians and denounce the conduct of their conquerors, who, in contempt of the
repeated orders of the emperor, persisted in enslaving the natives.
In 1537 he was nominated bishop of Carthagena. As a
condition of acceptance he desired that Charles V should display more energy in
the protection of the Indians, build a cathedral and a Dominican convent in
Carthagena, and send out six missionaries of the order every year to his
diocese; and all of these petitions were granted. He then gathered a colony of
priests and monks from the Dominican and other communities and distributed them
through every part of his immense diocese.
He began his cathedral in 1538, and was engaged in
founding a school in Carthagena, after the model of the Propaganda in Rome, for
the education of the children of the caciques and principal Indians, when he
received letters from Charles V announcing his translation to the see of Lima,
which was created in 1540.
He reached Lima in 1543, and during the insurrection of
Gonzalo Pizarro offered his services to the viceroy, Blasco Nunez de Vela, and
consented to visit Pizarro in Cuzco with the view of obtaining his submission.
Although he was at first received with distrust by the rebels, many of them were
finally convinced by his arguments and spoke of going to Lima to make their
submission, when the auditors, irritated by the obstinacy of the viceroy, opened
the gates of Lima to Pizarro.
Loayza was prominent in the events that followed, and
after the defeat of Pizarro prevented the victors from coming to blows over the
spoils. Meanwhile the see of Lima had been erected into an archbishopric, and he
received the pallium and the bull by which he was named archbishop of that city.
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