The Otomi Indians and Montecillo

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Montecillo... It has what you like a group of Otomi Indians around 1600 and tarascan avecindaron part of the ejidos in the East of the city of San Luis Potosí. The new settlement was small in size: only consisted of two leagues, measured in terms of the city towards the Cerro de San Pedro, and width less than a quarter of a League. The name of Montecillo, adopted from the outset by its inhabitants according to the titles of erection of the village, was derived from the fact that the lands they settled originally were rough, hilly and fruitless. At this stage of its history, by not por no ser be formal settlement lacked of self-government, and in the Church was subject to the parish of the city of San Luis Potosí. As in the rest of the Indian peoples, also in this settled several families of coyotes, mestizos and mulattos, who joined coexisting peacefully with the Indians. The dedication and the work of its inhabitants soon surrendered its fruits; in the early years the ground they dismounted, opened roads and streets, built jacales, formed gang, dug wells to draw water for human consumption and cultivated corn, which harvested with the rains. From the early years, the new settlement was regarded as important supplier of workers for the benefit of metal farms located in the direction of La Laguna. The impetus shown initially by its inhabitants declined over time, and would not be until late 17TH century and early 18th CENTURIES when he began a phase of sustained growth, which somehow was derived from the establishment of a "room" for Chapel. This attracted the attention of Antonio Fernández del Rivero, Mayor of San Luis Potosí (1697-1700), who for the first time instituted Government in place by appointing Juan Pascual with the po...

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...k of the former mayors of the town, the same priest Ariceaga promoted the construction of a formal, same Chapel began in 1730 and was completed in 1747; and from 1748 mass, the doctrine to children and the Feast was celebrated in it. In 1753 the chapel consisted of 26 meters long and 8 wide. It had all the ornaments and the implements necessary to celebrate the mass, and had sacristy, House and cemetery, with a length of 17 meters by almost 9 of bandwidth. The introduction of the railway affected the whole of the main square and the appearance of the temple, and in 1955 was covered the facade original; soon after stood up a fence on the edge of the sidewalk and the temple was isolated. In 1961 it was erected in a Vicariate and in 1965 it was given the shape it has today, after being constructed the façade and the gateway to the East; in 1976 he erected in parish.

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