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TORRE, Tomas de la, Spanish missionary, born in Salamanca about 1510; died in Chiapa, Mexico, in 1567. He studied at the Dominican college of San Esteban, in Salamanca, and when twenty years of age entered the order and was attached to the missions of Santo Domingo. He became there one of the most trusted assistants of Bishop Bartolome de Los Casas in his exertions in behalf of the conquered Indians, and incurred the hostility of the Spanish authorities by his fearless denunciation of their cruelties. Las Casas therefore ordered him to Guatemala in 1544, and he travelled for three years through the country preaching the gospel. He became in 1547 vicar of Cinacautlan, prior of the convent of Guatemala in 1550, and provincial of the order in 1553. He founded the convents of Chiapa and Copanabaxtla and schools for the Indians, and built churches and colleges. He left a valuable manuscript, " Historia de los principios de la Provincia de Chiapa y Guatemala, del orden de Santo Domingo," which was used by Father Antonio de Remesal in his "Historia de las Provincias de Chiapa y Guatemala" (Madrid, 1619).
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