In 1661, Freitas testified to the Holy Office in the Inquisition trial of López de Mendizábal. He recounted a conversation in which López had claimed that the bull Omnimoda had been revoked, limiting the powers of mendicant orders in the New World.[5] He also accused López of allowing the local Hopi to perform their traditional Kachina dances.[6]
Freitas subsequently accompanied López's replacement, Diego de Peñalosa, to Santa Fe, and became custos there.[1] In 1706,[7] Freitas testified to Governor Francisco Antonio Marín del Valle about the likely location of the body of another Franciscan, Geronimo de la Llana.[8]
References
^ abSheridan, Thomas E.; Koyiyumptewa, Stewart B.; Daughters, Anton; Brenneman, Dale S.; Ferguson, T. J.; Kuwanwisiwma, Leigh J.; Lomayestewa, Leigh Wayne (12 November 2015). Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679. University of Arizona Press. p. 295. ISBN978-0-8165-3243-8.
^Scholes, France V.; Simmons, Marc; Esquibel, José Antonio (16 May 2012). Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627–1693. UNM Press. ISBN978-0-8263-5117-3.
^Historian John Kessell suggests that the date of 1706 may be an error, and the statement may actually date to 1670.
^Ivey, James E. (1988). In the Midst of a Loneliness: The Architectural History of the Salinas Missions : Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument : Historic Structure Report. Division of History, Southwest Cultural Resources Center, Southwest Region, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. p. 237.
