User:Itai/Franciscan missionary activity

Grepped from Timeline of Christian missions.


 * 1210 - Franciscan Order established
 * 1219 - Francis of Assisi presents the Gospel to the Sultan of Egypt
 * - Franciscan William of Rubruck begins his journey to the Mongols
 * - Franciscan Giovanni di Monte Corvino arrives in China
 * - Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan monk from Italy, arrives in China
 * - Franciscans make contacts on Sumatra, Java, and Borneo
 * - Chaghatayid Khan Buzun allows Christians to rebuild churches and permits Franciscans to establish a missionary episcopate in Almaliq, Azerbaijan
 * - Collapse of the Franciscan mission in China as Ming Dynasty abolishes Christianity
 * 1420 - Franciscan missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to Madeira
 * 1431 - Franciscan missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to the Azores
 * - Johannes Gutenberg begins printing the Bible with his movable-type printing process; Pope Pius II assigns the evangelization of the Portuguese Guinea Coast of Africa to the Franciscans led by Alfonso de Bolano
 * - The Congo sees its first group of missionaries arrive. Under the ministry of these Franciscan and Dominican priests, the king would soon be baptized and a church built at the royal capital.
 * - Franciscans enter Brazil with Cabral
 * - Franciscans begin evangelizing in Venezuela
 * - Franciscans begin missionary work in California
 * - Portuguese missionary Francisco Álvares is sent on a diplomatic mission to Dawit II, the Negus or Emperor of Abyssinia (an old name for Ethiopia)
 * - Three Franciscans are killed by cannibals in northeastern South America, in the area of Colombia and Venezuela
 * - Two Franciscans accompany Hernán Cortés in his expedition to Mexico
 * - Pope Leo X grants Franciscan Francis Quiñones permission and faculties to go as a missionary to the New World together with Juan Clapión
 * - Martin de Valencia goes to New Spain with 12 Franciscan friars
 * - Italian Franciscan missionary Giulio Zarco is sent to Michoacán on the western coast of Mexico where he will become very proficient in some of the indigeneous languages
 * - Franciscans enter Florida; Twelve Dominican friars arrive in the Mexican capital
 * - Franciscan missionary Juan de Padilla arrives in Mexico. He will accompany Coronado's expedition searching for the Seven Cities and eventually settle among the Quivira (now called the Wichita)
 * - Franciscan Peter of Ghent writes from Latin America that he and a colleague had baptized 14,000 people on one day
 * - Franciscan Juan de Padilla begins a series of missionary tours among Indian tribes southeast of Mexico City
 * - Evangelization of Peru begins when missionaries arrive with Francisco Pizzaro's military expedition
 * - German Franciscan missionary Maximilian Uhland (also called Bernardino de San Jose) speaks before the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith about the wretched condition of Indigenous peoples of the Americas in the New World
 * - Franciscans enter Paraguay
 * - The Pueblos of what is now the Southwestern United States are encountered by Spanish Franciscan missionary Marcos de Niza
 * - Franciscans arrive in Trinidad and are killed by cannibals
 * - Franciscans begin establishing missions in California
 * - Francis Xavier goes to Portuguese colony of Goa in West India; Franciscans reach what is now New Mexico
 * - Franciscan Andrés de Olmos, a veteran missionary in Mexico, struck northward into the Texas wilderness. After gathering a group of Indian converts, he will lead them back into Tamaulipas
 * 1545 - Testifying to the power that letters back home from missionaries have had, Antonio Araoz writes about Francis Xavier: "No less fruit has been obtained in Spain and Portugal through his letters than has been obtained in the Indies through his teaching."
 * - Francis Xavier travels to the Indonesian islands of Morotai, Ambon, and Ternate
 * - Francis Xavier founds the College of the Holy Name of God in Baçaim on the northwest coast of India
 * - Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier dies awaiting admission to China
 * - Large-scale evangelization of the Florida Indian nations and tribes begins with the arrival of Franciscan friars; Augustinian order enters Ecuador
 * - Five Jesuit missionaries—Rudolph Acquaviva, Peter Berno, Francis Aranha, Alphonsus Pacheco and Anthony Francisco—are murdered near Goa (India)
 * 1585 - Carmelite leader Jerome Gracian meets with Martin Ignatius de Loyola, a Franciscan missionary from China. The two sign a vinculo de hermandad misionera -- a bond of missionary brotherhood—by which the two orders would collaborate in missionary work in Ethiopia, China, the Philippines, and the East and West Indies.
 * - Francis Solano (or Solanus) goes to Peru as a missionary
 * - The Franciscans arrive in Japan and establish St. Anna's hospital in Kyoto
 * - Jesuit Francisco Fernandez goes to what is now the Jessore District of Bangladesh and, with the permission of Maharaja Pratapaditya, builds a church there
 * - Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina arrives in Vietnam
 * - After entering Japan in disguise, Jesuit missionary Francis Pacheco is captured and executed at Nagasaki
 * - Franciscan missionary Alonzo Benavides founds Santa Clara de Capo on the border of Apache Indian country in what is now New Mexico
 * - Zuni Indians murder a group of Franciscan missionaries who had three years earlier established the first mission to the Zunis at Hawikuh in what is now New Mexico
 * - An expedition of Franciscans leaves Quito, Ecuador, to try to penetrate into Amazonia from the west. Though most of them will be killed along the way, a few will manage to arrive two years later on the Atlantic coast.
 * - The Pueblo Revolt begins in New Mexico with the killing of twenty-one Franciscan missionaries
 * - First Franciscan missionaries arrive in Texas
 * - Irish-born Francis Makemie, who has been an itinerant Presbyterian missionary among the colonists of America since 1683, is finally able to organize the first American presbytery
 * - Spanish Franciscan priest Junipero Serra (1713-1784 arrives in Mexico as a missionary. In 1767 he would go north to what is now California, zealously building missions and converting Native Americans.
 * - Franciscan missionary the Venerable Gabriele Allegra arrives in Hunan China from Italy to start translating the Bible
 * - The Venerable Gabriele Allegra establishes the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Beijing