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Juan Coronel

1569 – 1651

Spanish missionary

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About Juan Coronel

Lived 1569 – 1651 (aged 81–82). Juan Coronel was a Spanish missionary.

Juan Coronel (1569 in Spain – 1651 at Mérida, Mexico) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary.

Life

He made his academic studies at the University of Alcalá de Henares, and joined the Franciscans of the province of Castile. He was sent to Yucatán, Mexico, in 1590, and there so familiarized himself with the Maya language that he was able to teach it, the historian Diego López de Cogolludo being one of his pupils.

Coronel was one of the foremost Christian teachers in Yucatán in the seventeenth century. He was a strict Observantine for sixty-seven years, always travelling barefooted. His austerity impeded his election to the office of Provincial of the Franciscan Order in Yucatán.

Works

Cogolludo says he wrote a Maya grammar (Arte) that was printed in Mexico, of which, however, nothing else is known. A catechism in Maya: "Doctrina cristiana en lengua Maya", was published in Mexico in 1620, and in the same year there appeared in print, also in Mexico, "Discursos predicables y tratados espirituales en lengua Maya". Both are exceedingly rare.

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Important facts

Born
1569
Birth century
Died
1651
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Education
University of Alcalá

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Spanish missionary

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Juan Coronel was born in 1569.

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Juan Coronel died in 1651.

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Juan Coronel was a missionary.

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Juan Coronel was Spanish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Juan Coronel

· Wikidata: Q6299524

· DBpedia: Juan Coronel

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