Pedro Font
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Pedro Font (1737–1781) was a Franciscan missionary and diarist.
Biography
Font was born in 1737 in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.[1] He received his training at Querétaro Missionary College.[2]
From 1773 to 1775, Font served at Mission San José de Tumacácori in Pima Country. He was the chaplain of Juan Bautista de Anza's expedition that explored Alta California from 1775 to 1776.[2] Font's diary, With Anza to California, gives the principal account of the expedition;[3] in it, Font describes military governor Fernando Rivera y Moncada using force against a neophyte. Font was involved in Rivera's excommunication.[citation needed]
While on the expedition, Font drew one of the first maps of the
Font later served at Mission
Writings and legacy
Font described the
Font Street, in San Francisco's Parkmerced neighborhood, is named for Pedro Font.[6]
References
- ^ Tumacacori National Historical Park.
- ^ a b c Zephyrin Engelhardt (1912). The Missions and Missionaries of California, Volume II: Upper California. pp. xxix, 173–190.
- ^ Nancy J. Olmsted. "The Spanish Presence at Mission Bay, 1775–1833". FoundSF.
- ^ Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). "S". Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. San Francisco: Sierra Club. Archived from the original on 2011-05-14.
- OCLC 801167318. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
Among the women I saw men dressed like women, with whom they go about regularly, never joining the men. From this, I inferred they must be hermaphrodites, but from what I learned later I understood that they were sodomites, dedicated to nefarious practices. ...There will be much to do when the Holy Faith and the Christian religion are established among them."
- ^ The Chronicle 12 April 1987 p.7
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