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Pedro de Córdoba OP (c.1460–1525) was a Spanish missionary, author and inquisitor on the island of Hispaniola. He was first to denounce the Spanish system known as the Encomienda , which amounted to the practical enslavement of natives of the New World, for the abuses that it engendered.
Pedro Pablo Opeka (born June 29, 1948), known also as Father Opeka, is a Catholic Argentinian-Slovenian priest, [1] [2] working as a missionary in Madagascar. For his service to the poor, he was awarded with the Legion of Honor by the former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša and French President Emanuel Macron .
The story begins with the first-person account of Juan Preciado, who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will return to Comala to meet his father, Pedro Páramo. His narration is interspersed with fragments of third-person dialogue from the life of Pedro Páramo, who lived in a time when Comala was a robust, living town, instead of the ghost town Juan now sees.
Sculpture of Pedro Espinosa in Antequera, Spain. Espinosa studied Canons and Theology. He attended the Granada Poetic Academy, led by Pedro de Granada Venegas. There he met Gonzalo Mateo de Berrío. During a stay in Seville, he became acquainted with Juan de Arguijo. During this period he compiled the materials for a poetic anthology titled ...
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Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera Ignacio [2] [note 1] (February 27, 1857 – April 26, 1911) [note 2] [3] was a Filipino politician. He was also a poet and a novelist. [4]His intervention on behalf of the Spanish led to the signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato on December 14, 1897, an account of which he published in 1910.
Pedro Poveda was born on 3 December 1874 at Linares, Spain, into the solidly Christian family of José Poveda Montes and María Linarejos Castroverde Moreno. Deciding to become a priest at a young age, he entered the seminary in Jaén in 1889, and then transferred to the seminary of Guadix , Granada, where he had been offered a scholarship by ...
Fray Pedro de los Ríos (died 1563–1565 [1]) was a Domician missionary in New Spain in the mid-16th century. Little is known about him, but he contributed to the creation of the manuscripts now known as the Codex Telleriano-Remensis and Codex Vaticanus A , which describe Aztec culture and history .