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 [1] 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. [2] Antonio de Montesinos ( España, c. 1475 - Provincia de Venezuela, 27 de junio de 1540 ), fue un misionero y fraile español. January 1, 1511 Tell me, by what right or justice do you hold these Indians in such cruel and horrible slavery? By what right do you wage such detestable wars on these people who lived mildly and peacefully in their own lands, where you have consumed infinite numbers of them with unheard of murders and desolations?
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. 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. 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. Shortly before Christmas 1511, Antonio de Montesinos OP had preached a now famous sermon at Santo Domingo. Jointly composed by the first four friars in Hispaniola, the sermon vehemently denounced the maltreatment by the Spanish of the indigenous Indians. As numbers grew, the friars established new houses and provinces.
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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? 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 .
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 peoples of the Island. Montesinos's preaching lead. Burgos, Laws ofLaws of Burgos, early Spanish response to reports of abuse of the native Caribbean population. The Laws of Burgos were the response to growing complaints, especially by Dominican friars, that the colonists on Hispaniola were treating the rapidly declining native population cruelly and inhumanely. The Dominican Antonio de Montesinos stated in a sermon delivered in Hispaniola in.
Estatua Fray Anton de Montesinos, en Santo Domingo (este personaje de la historia dominicana
El padre Las Casas define a Antonio Montesino como "amador del rigor de la religión, muy religioso y buen predicador". Por estas cualidades fue elegido por la comunidad religiosa, encabezada por fray Pedro de Córdoba, para protestar con toda solemnidad. Antonio de Montesinos was born in Spain, though it is unknown exactly when. His story really begins in 1510, when he was part of a group of Dominican friars who came to Santo Domingo to convert the native Taino population of the island of Hispaniola (what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). At the time of first contact with Europeans in.
