Francisco de Santiago y Calderón

Francisco de Santiago y Calderón (5 February 1669 - 13 October 1736) was a Spanish clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca.[4] He was a lecturer in arts at a convent school in Huete, and later taught sacred theology at the University of Salamanca and at that of Alcalá.[4] Continuing the campaigns of the Counter-reformation, and in particular those of his predecessor Bishop Maldonado, de Santiago fought against non-Christian practices termed "idolatry", accepted the Dominican concept of the 15 mysteries, and increased the number of Spanish language teachers in his diocese between 1730 and 1734, although he was only partially successful in stamping out Zapotec syncretic practices like ancestor worship.[6] Bishop de Santiago created rules in 1731 for confradías to organize and pay for festivals, which were later copied by other dioceses in Mexico.[7] In July 1735, de Santiago, in his ecclesiastical role as judge of a canon law court, indicted several local government officials for "alleged cannibalism and child sacrifice," and eventually imprisoned them for idolatry.
SpanishbishopRoman Catholic Archdiocese of Antequera, OaxacaTorralba de Calatravadiocese of CuencaOrder of La Mercedconvent schoolsacred theologyUniversity of SalamancaAlcalárectorancient University of MadridBishop of GuatemalaNew SpainBishop of Caracas, Santiago de VenezuelaCounter-reformationidolatryDominican15 mysteriesSpanish languageZapotecsyncretic practicesancestor worshipconfradíascanon lawindictedcannibalismchild sacrifice