GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 4: Outside United States
Italy: IT-5

Franciscans. General Headquarters
Order of Friars Minor
Via Santa Maria Mediatrice 25
00165 Roma, Italia

Phone: 396-684-91-203

 

History: St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscans (a.k.a. Order of Friars Minor) in Italy, 1209, who self-identify with the post-nominal initials, “O.F.M.” In the present-day United States, they have administered the following provinces and jurisdictions through which they evangelized Native Americans. For more information, see the guide entries on the archival holdings relating to these provinces.

1573-1763	Santa Elena de la Florida Province (Archives: Gainesville, Florida): Alabama, Florida, Georgia
1598-1850	Santo Evangelico Province (Archives: Puebla, Mexico, and Phoenix, Arizona): Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas
1616-1850	Conversion of St. Paul Custody (Archives: Phoenix, Arizona): New Mexico
1731-1773	Santa Cruz de Querétaro College (Queretaro, Mexico; archives: DRSW, Phoenix, Arizona): Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
1773-1830	Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Zacatecas College (Archives: Puebla, Mexico, and Phoenix, Arizona): Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
1878-ca. 2010	Sacred Heart Province (Archives: St. Louis, Missouri): Arizona, Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin
1896-1985	St. John the Baptist Province (Archives: Cincinnati, Ohio; archives bulk: St. Michaels, Arizona, and Tucson, Arizona): Arizona, New Mexico
1915-present	Santa Barbara Province (Archives: Santa Barbara, California): Arizona, California, New Mexico
1985-present	Our Lady of Guadalupe Province (Archives: St. Michaels, Arizona): Arizona, New Mexico

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans in the United States: Unknown.

 

However, its records and those from other Franciscan jurisdictions are included in the Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW), an online guide for research regarding Catholic-Spanish evangelization, exploration, and settlement in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and Northern Mexico, 1520-1820. DRSW provides item-level descriptions to records and is hosted by the Institutional Repository of the University of Arizona Libraries, Phoenix, Arizona.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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