Antonio de Montesinos or Antonio Montesino, OP (c. 1475 - June 27, 1540 [1]) was a Spanish Dominican friar who was a missionary on the island of Hispaniola (now comprising the Dominican Republic and Haiti ). Antonio de Montesinos (?-1545) was a Dominican friar attached to the Spanish conquest of the Americas and one of the earliest of the Dominican arrivals in the New World. He is best remembered for a sermon delivered on December 4, 1511, in which he made a blistering attack on the colonists who had enslaved the people of the Caribbean.
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Antonio de Montesinos (Montesino, Montezinos; d. c. 1530), a Dominican priest who was the first public exponent of the rights of the Indians in the New World. Montesinos criticized Spanish treatment of the indigenous inhabitants on Hispaniola during the early sixteenth century. Antonio de Montezinos, also known as Aharon Levi or Aharon HaLevi, was a Portuguese traveler and a Marrano Sephardic Jew who in 1644 persuaded Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi of Amsterdam, that he had found one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel living in the jungles of the "Quito Province" (that is, the Pichincha Province) of Ecuador. Antonio de Montesinos ( España, c. 1475 - Provincia de Venezuela, 27 de junio de 1540 ), fue un misionero y fraile español. Antonio de Montesinos: "Christmas Eve Sermon of 1511" on Just Treatment of Indians January 1, 1511 Tell me, by what right or justice do you hold these Indians in such cruel and horrible slavery?
Monumento a Fray Antonio de Montesinos, Santo Domingo
New Catholic Encyclopedia MONTESINO, ANTONIO Dominican missionary and possibly a martyr; b. Spain, not later than 1486; d. West Indies, c. 1530. The birth and death dates of this Dominican friar, known also as Antonio de Montesinos, have not been accurately determined, nor is much information available on his life. Antonio de Montesinos (1511) Annotation: In a sermon delivered in 1511, a Dominican friar, Antonio Montesinos, denounced the mistreatment of the New World Indians. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. On the Sunday before Christmas in 1511 Dominican Father Antonio de Montesinos delivered a highly provocative sermon in the Holy Mass in Isla Española (today's Dominican Republic and Haiti), the first colonial town erected in the New World after the Spanish Conquest. Montesinos' Legacy brings scholars together in honor of the 500th anniversary of Dominican Antonio de Montesinos' famous sermon in defense of the rights of the indigenous Amerindians. The collection addresses the historical context for this sermon, but also the continued relevance of Montesinos today. Antonio de Montesinos' Legacy examines the origins of human rights concepts in the West.
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The stirring words of Antonio de Montesinos' homily for Fourth Advent—-which shocked the unsuspecting congregation—-still echo:. Many today remember de Montesinos as a precursor to secular human rights, but this is misguided. His greatest charge against the Spanish was not that they had neglected the bodies of the natives. Antonio de Montesinos . Antonio de Montesinos or Antonio Montesino (Spain, c. 1475 - Venezuela, 1545) was a Spanish Dominican friar who was a missionary on the island of Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti).With the backing of his prior, Friar Pedro de Córdoba, and his Dominican community at Santo Dominigo, Montesinos preached against the enslavement and harsh treatment of the.
Antonio de Montesinos was a Spanish Dominican friar on the island of Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic and Haiti) who, with the backing of his prior, Fray Pedro de Córdoba and his Dominican community at Santo Dominigo, preached against the enslavement and harsh treatment of the Indigenous peopl . 0. The Laws of Burgos were issued by Ferdinand the Catholic. It is believed that the creation of these laws is the legacy of Fray Antonio de Montesinos, who delivered his first sermon on December 21, 1511 (aka "the Christmas sermon") advocating justice for the native peoples .
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On December 21, 1511, Fray Antonio de Montesinos preached a sermon on the island of Hispaniola in which he challenged the legality of the Spaniards' treatment of the island's Taíno population: Tell me by what right and by what justice do you hold these Indians in such cruel and horrible servitude? bibliography: C. Roth, Life of Menasseh Ben Israel (1934), 176-92, 330-1. Encyclopaedia Judaica MONTEZINOS, ANTONIO DEMONTEZINOS, ANTONIO DE (Aaron Levi ; d. c. 1650), Marrano traveler.
