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Pedro Mendes

MENDES, Pedro (men'-des), Portuguese clergyman, b, in Villavigosa in 1558; died in Mexico in 1643. In 1575 he entered the company of Jesus. From Toledo, where he was professor of Latin, he went to Mexico, and in the province of Sinaloa worked in the missions during twenty-four years, after which he was sent into retirement in Mexico. At the age of seventy years he was sent again to Sinaloa to convert several tribes. In 1633 he undertook the conversion of the Sisibotario and Tehueco Indians, with whom he lived four years, and in 1638 he returned to Mexico. He wrote "Varias cartas histdricas sobre las misiones de los Mayas, Sisibotares, y Batucas e Tehuecos."

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