San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg jointly signed a sister city agreement on Tuesday with his counterpart from Querétaro, Mexico ...

SAN ANTONIO - Two cities with a storied history and deep cultural connection are taking steps to strengthen their bond.On ...

Here in the brooding desert and high mesas, two sacred worlds collided: the Catholicism of the Spanish friars and the spirit-filled religion of the indigenous peoples known as the Pueblos.

The first settlers were the Spanish friars, who arrived in 1776 to establish a mission in the area. Their efforts to convert the Ohlone into loyal, docile Christians and use them as a source of slave ...

In 1539, Friar Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan priest, reported to Spanish colonial officials in Mexico City that he’d seen the legendary city of Cibola in what is now New Mexico. It was an ...

There, Spanish friars baptized thousands of the Native Americans. Amid conflict between the Apalachee, other Native American groups, the Spanish, and the English, the mission was destroyed in 1704.

and Father Francisco de Veráscola — all members of the Order of Friars Minor — during a four-day period in what was then Spanish Florida. The first martyr died on the feast of the Exultation ...

Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Felipe Fernando Macías Olvera, mayor of Querétaro, officially signed a sister city agreement on ...

Here in the brooding desert and high mesas, two sacred worlds collided: the Catholicism of the Spanish friars and the spirit-filled religion of the indigenous peoples known as the Pueblos.