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Americas | 1944

Literary contributions of catholics in nineteenth-century Mexico.

Francis Borgia Steck

A Phase of American history that calls for a more adequate appraisal is the role played by Catholics in the cultural life of Mexico during the nineteenth century, from Hidalgo’s dash for independence in 1810 to the collapse of the Diaz regime in 1910. It is commonly believed that during these hundred years Catholics in Mexico were dolefully sitting on the sidelines and sucking their thumbs, wistfully waiting for a chance to enter once more and enrich with their contribution the temple of national culture. So many imagine that Catholics in nineteenth-century Mexico, being fettered politically and black-listed socially, manifested little interest and made no worthwhile contributions along cultural lines. Belonging generally to the so-called “conservative” party in the political arena, they are supposed to have been debarred from the cultured “liberal” circles of the day and for this reason remained inarticulate, contributing nothing of real importance and enduring value to the culture of independent Mexico and exerting no appreciable influence on contemporary literature, art, science, and education.


Americas | 1949

Father Marquette´s Place in American history.

Francis Borgia Steck

To Judge from the numerous monuments erected to honor Father Marquette during the past century; the festive demonstrations held at intervals to pay tribute to his name; the prominence accorded him in textbooks and literary productions as discoverer and explorer; the naming for him of localities, social groups and commercial enterprises—to judge from all this, one must conclude that Marquette deserves to rank among the foremost celebrities in American history. Assuredly, no one would think of depriving him pf this place in our annals if it tallied with the testimony which the available records of the past supply. But does it?


Americas | 1946

Literary Contributions of Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (continued)

Francis Borgia Steck

It remains, in the study we are pursuing, to cite those Catholic Mexicans whose literary contributions during the Diaz era were made almost exclusively in prose. Among these, too, several survived the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz and continued to write and publish during the turbulent years that followed. But in keeping with the time-limit set for our study only such works of theirs will be considered as were written and published before the year 1910.


Americas | 1946

Literary contributions of Catholics in nineteenth-century Mexico.: Part two: The Díaz Regime (1867-1910).

Francis Borgia Steck

Another gifted writer whose name has almost passed into oblivion is Tirso Rafael Cordoba . Like Rafael Gomez, he from Michoacan, a circumstance that seems to explain why during the period we are considering these two men stood on such intimate terms of friendship and in their literary career had so many things in common. His biographer tells us that in 1853, at the early age of fifteen, Cordoba, then a student in the Seminario de Morelia, was admitted to membership in the Liceo Iturbide, a distinction conferred upon him in view of the exceptional progress he had made in the arts and sciences. Only for the disturbed times in which his youth and early manhood fell, Cordoba would have entered the priesthood, this being his intention when he studied philosophy in the Seminario Conciliar Palafoxiano in the city of Puebla. From this celebrated school he graduated with high honors and then proceeded to Mexico City where he studied canon and civil law in the Colegio de San Ildefonso and passed the bar examination in the University of Mexico. But again he became a victim of circumstances, unable to engage freely and fully in the legal and political circles for which he was so richly qualified. After the fall of the Second Empire, at which time he was Secretary General of the municipal government of Puebla, he retired from public life and thereafter took a prominent part, chiefly in Mexico City, in social and literary activities. He was one of the founders of the organization known as La Sociedad Catolica and collaborated in the founding and editing of periodicals, popular as well as literary, such as La Voz de Mexico, El Obrero Catolico, El Hijo del Obrero, La Lira Poblana, La Aurora , and La Oliva .


Americas | 1944

The Indian background of colonial Yucatan

Francis Borgia Steck; Ralph L. Roys


Americas | 1943

Three New Mexico Chronicles.

Francis Borgia Steck; H. Bailey Carroll; J. Villasana Haggard


Americas | 1945

Enrico Martinez, cosmografo e impresor de Nueva Espana.

Francis Borgia Steck; Francisco de la Maza


Americas | 1947

Christopher Columbus and the Franciscans.

Francis Borgia Steck


Americas | 1951

The Legacy of Christopher Columbus. By Otto Schoenrich, LL.B., D.C.L. 2 Volumes. (Glendale, Calif.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1949. Pp. 349, 320.

Francis Borgia Steck


Americas | 1950

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Francis Borgia Steck; Edward Reman

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