The old and the new Peru : $b A story of the ancient inheritance and the modern growth and enterprise of a great nationWright, Marie Robinson
History
The old and the new Peru : $b A story of the ancient inheritance and the modern growth and enterprise of a great nation
Wright, Marie Robinson
Peru; Peru -- History
At the time of their expulsion from Peru, the Jesuits were in possession
of the college of San Pablo, the Novitiate, the house of probation of
the Cercado, the house of the Desamparados, and the royal colleges of
San Martin and the Caciques, in Lima; the colleges of the
Transfiguration, San Bernardo, and San Francisco de Borja in Cuzco; the
celebrated University of San Francisco Javier and the royal college of
San Juan Bautista in Chuquisaca; and colleges in Potosí, Arequipa,
Cochabamba, Bellavista, Huancavelica, Huamanga, Ica, Moquegua, Oruro, La
Paz, Pisco, and Trujillo, as well as the missions of Mojos and
Chiquitos, the residence of Santa Cruz de la Sierra and five parishes of
Juli. The landed estates of the Jesuits numbered more than two hundred
at the time of their banishment, and were valued at six hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. It was believed that the order succeeded in
hiding vast treasure, and the government made a persistent search, but
it has never been found, nor is there anything to prove that all their
wealth was not employed in the support of their colleges, missions and
other immense and constantly increasing religious establishments. The
estates of the banished order were sold at auction, and the proceeds,
together with the gold and silver confiscated by the Crown, were used to
pay the costs of their deportation, amounting to half a million dollars,
the surplus, eight hundred thousand dollars, being sent to the King of
Spain. The sacred relics and ornaments of the temples were distributed
among the public institutions, and the collections of books were given
to the University of Lima to form the basis of a public library. All the
revenues of the order reverted to the Crown.
Under the viceroyalty there were five bishoprics subject to the
metropolitan See of Lima, the first having been established in Cuzco and
the second in Lima, at the time of the Conquest, to which were added
those of Trujillo (1611), Arequipa (1612) and Huamanga (1615). In each
diocese the ecclesiastical government was divided into parochial
districts, under the authority of the priests. The religious labors of
the Christian fathers were by no means light during the early days, as
the former subjects of the Children of the Sun, though apparently easily
converted, confounded the worship of God with that of Pachacámac, giving
a most unorthodox interpretation to the dogma of the Trinity and the
Immaculate Conception.
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