[Philip IV of Spain]; [Society of Jesus]; Palafox y Mendoza, Juan; and Roxas, Alonso de:

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[GROUP OF THREE SCARCE MEXICAN IMPRINTS RELATING TO THE CONFLICT BETWEEN JUAN PALAFOX Y MENDOZA, BISHOP OF PUEBLA, AND THE SOCIETY OF JESUS IN THE MID-17th ... A group of three scarce publications relating to the acrimonious conflict between Juan Palafox y Mendoza, Bishop of Puebla, and the Jesuits in New Spain.Juan Palafox y Mendoza (1600-59) was born in Navarre, educated at Salamanca, and appointed a member of the Council of the Indies. He later became a priest and in 1639 was made Bishop of Puebla de los Angeles. Palafox arrived in Mexico in 1640 and soon butted heads with the Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinians, whose many exemptions and privileges he looked upon as encroachments on his jurisdiction. In 1642 he was made Archbishop of New Spain, and for a brief time that same year he was acting Viceroy, during which he instituted financial reforms and made a push for indigenous conversion. Despite (or perhaps thanks to) that push, Palafox distinguished himself as bishop in his efforts to protect the Native Americans from Spanish cruelty, forbidding any methods of conversion other than persuasion. He was also a patron of the arts: under his tenure Puebla became the music center of New Spain, and he established the Biblioteca Palafoxiana, which continues to this day.Palafox's fortunes turned when he came into major conflict with the Jesuits over ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the mid-1640s. The legendary feud between Palafox and the Society of Jesus was fierce, extende

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