Famous Texas missionary dies in Mexico City

On this day in 1726, Antonio Margil de Jes?s, early missionary to Texas, died in Mexico City. Margil was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1657. Even as a boy he referred to himself as "Nothingness Itself," a title he consistently used in adulthood. He become a Franciscan in 1673. At the age of twenty-five he received Holy Orders and soon accepted the challenge of missionary work in New Spain. He arrived at Veracruz in 1683. In New Spain Margil was assigned to the missionary College of Santa Cruz de Quer?taro, and spent several years as a missionary in Yucat?n, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. Margil also traveled in early 1707 to Zacatecas to found and preside over the missionary College of Nuestra Se?ora de Guadalupe de Zacatecas. He was to have accompanied the Domingo Ram?n expedition of 1716, charged with setting up Franciscan missions in East Texas. However, illness prevented his arrival in East Texas until after the founding of the first four missions. In 1717 Margil supervised the founding of Nuestra Se?ora de los Dolores de los Ais and San Miguel de Linares de los Adaes, which with the previously established Nuestra Se?ora de Guadalupe completed the missions under the control of the Zacatecan Franciscans. In February 1720 Margil founded at San Antonio the most successful of all Texas missions, San Jos? y San Miguel de Aguayo.In 1722 he was recalled to Mexico to serve again as guardi?n of the college he had founded. At the conclusion of his three-year term, Margil resumed missionary work in Mexico until his death. Arguably the most famous missionary to serve in Texas, Antonio Margil de Jes?s remains under consideration for sainthood by the Vatican.

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