Guillermo Gómez-Peña (Mexico City, Mexico/San Francisco, CA, 1955–)

2022 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Paola S. Hernández ◽  
Analola Santana
Keyword(s):  
2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (03) ◽  
pp. 311-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Truitt

In 1519 Spanish conquistadors arrived on the shores of Mesoamerica under the leadership of Hernando Cortés. Following the defeat of Mexico-Tenochtidan, the Aztec capital, Cortés requested that members of the Franciscan order be sent from Spain to lead the conversion effort. In 1523 the first three Franciscans arrived, among them fray Pedro de Gante. One year later another 12 Franciscans made the journey. They established themselves in the southeastern portion of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and under their direction Nahua laborers built the principal Franciscan religious compound, San Francisco, and the first indigenous chapel in New Spain, San Josef de los Naturales. Together this friary and chapel served as the main point of interaction for Franciscan conversion efforts within the altepetl, ethnic state, of Mexico-Tenochtidan. In the courtyard of San Francisco, next to the indigenous chapel, fray Pedro established an indigenous school aimed at the indoctrination of the Nahua peoples of Mexico-Tenochtitlan and other outlying altepetl. Although its students were primarily members of indigenous nobility, other promising Nahuas received an education there as well.


1950 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Fidel de J. Chauvet

Without Doubt one of the buildings of greatest historical merit in the capital of Mexico is the ancient Church of San Francisco. There, shortly after arriving at the Aztec metropolis, the “Twelve Apostles of Mexico,” Fray Martín de Valencia and his companions established their home. These saintly men through their superhuman missionary activity converted that church into a fervent center of religion and culture. Adjoining the large church, they built the famous college of arts and trades destined especially for the Indian youths, which was directed by that great missionary, Fray Pedro de Gante. From that church and its convent the missionaries set forth to extend their activities southward to Peru, and northward to New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas. With reason, therefore, this ancient sanctuary of San Francisco may be considered the cradle of Christian Mexico, as well as the mother church of the Franciscans in the Americas.


1984 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Reynolds
Keyword(s):  

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
CLIFFORD G. GRULEE

This has been a year of meetings. We have already had Areal Meetings in Buffalo, Milwaukee and Seattle, and now comes the Annual Meeting. For the year 1949, we plan to have but two meetings: the Areal Meeting at Atlanta, Ga., April 13-15, and the Annual Meeting at San Francisco, Calif., November 14-17. There are two reasons why the number of meetings has been reduced. The first is that the force in the central office is too overloaded with work to carry on four meetings a year. The second, and all important, is that the commercial firms will not support so many meetings in one society. As a consequence, we stand likely to have a deficit in each of the three areal meetings. However, in two of these, one of the commercial firms assured us that it would make up any deficit, so that we are now in a position to write these two meetings off the books. I wish to call your attention to the meeting of the Second Pan-American Congress of Pediatrics at Mexico City from November 2-5, 1949, which will be under the direction of the Mexican pediatric group. Very few of our members have any conception of the amount of work which must precede one of our meetings, nor have they any conception of the amount of routine work which must be done in the central office. It seems likely that, in the not too distant future, we must enlarge our quarters and employ more help. One of the most encouraging things that has happened in the last year has been the way the committees have taken hold of their jobs and carried them out. Of the Standing Committees, the Committee on School Health has been so regularly efficient that it becomes routine for us to exclaim about it. Such Committees as the Committee on Fetus and Newborn have done outstanding work. The Committee on Legislation has been on the job regularly. The Committee on Governmental and Medical Agencies has been discharged with thanks and its work is taken over by the Committee for Improvement of Child Health. This last committee, under the direction of Dr. James L. Wilson, and with an efficient secretary in the form of Dr. Hubbard, is rounding into form and will have many suggestions to make to the Academy.


Author(s):  
Robert W. Cherny

When Arnautoff’’s student visa was expiring, Stackpole arranged an introduction to Diego Rivera, and Victor, Lydia, and their two sons spent 1929-1931 in Mexico. There Arnatuoff assisted Rivera at the Cortés Palace in Cuernavaca and the National Palace in Mexico City and encountered both the PCM (Mexican Communist Party) and Rivera’s idiosyncratic version of communism. In 1930, Rivera went to San Francisco to paint murals there, leaving Arnautoff in charge at the National Palace. Ione Robinson’s letters provide information both about life in Mexico City and about Arnautoff. In 1931, the family returned to the US as permanent residents eligible for citizenship.


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