By John L. Kessell, Rick Hendricks, Meredith D. Dodge
ISBN-10: 082631354X
ISBN-13: 9780826313546
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2 On the way home, he would pass the Bishop's Chapel, next to which the new church of San Andrés was under construction. His uncle six generations back, the famed Lic. Francisco de Vargas, had begun the chapel as a final resting place for the remains of holy Isidore, long considered a saint in Madrid, but not by Rome until 1622. " The saying gave dramatist Tirso de Molina the title for another play. After don Francisco died in 1524, his son, Gutierre de Vargas Carvajal, who as bishop of Plasencia attended the Council of Trent, finished the chapel.
Morale in the military was lower than ever. There seemed to be little choice. He had no university degree. He could delegate to others authority to manage his affairs at home, and Juana Venegas Ponce de León, his aged grandmother, with help from the rest of the family, could care for his children. 33 Captain Vargas's royal appointment as alcalde mayor of Chiapa, then in the jurisdiction of Guatemala, was issued on 13 April 1650. Two weeks later, don Alonso was in Seville. There, amid the eager bedlam of the House of Trade, he secured permission to depart for the Indies for himself and his three unmarried, male servants.
Page xviii Page 1 PART 1 Page 2 The Convento de San Francisco, Madrid. " Of obscure origin, the saying was old and proud. Spaniards had long likened nobles of impeccable qualities to hawks. But why hawks? Writing of the ancient and acclaimed House of Vargas in Madrid, sixteenth-century chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo offered an explanation, one he personally doubted. In winter the hawk, according to fable, keeps alive the bird captured at dusk and, without harming it, holds it all night in its talons, drawing warmth from it.
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