What Did Damian Massanet

1690: Father Damian Massanet established a mission at San Francisco de los Tejas. This mission is so significant because it was the first Spanish establishment in Teas and Damian Massanet became the first to start a Spanish mission in east Texas. This also marked the beginning of Spanish colonization

What mission did Damián Massanet do?

In May of that year Massanet founded the Spanish mission San Francisco de los Tejas, near what is now Augusta, Texas, in order to convert local Indians of the Hasinai (Tejas) confederacy to Christianity. Massanet soon quarreled with De León, who wanted to provide a large defensive force to protect the mission.

What was Francisco Hidalgo mission?

In 1688 Hidalgo began conducting missionary work in the northern frontier of the Spanish colonies, in what is now northeastern Mexico, in the hopes of converting the Indians there to Christianity.