Our Catlt0lic Heritage in T e:xas
leaving the missions again exposed to the unmitigated ravages of the insolent Apaches. While in San Xavier he had a loud dispute with Father Fray Joseph Pinilla, "whom he abused in a manner unbecoming his birth and rank and the character of the religious." After a few days he went on to Los Adaes, his stormy visit being but a preliminary to the more serious troubles of the missionaries with the commander of the new authorized presidio. 34 While Governor Barrios y Jauregui was disclosing in unmistakable terms his deep-rooted animosity against the San Xavier project, Captain Felipe de Rabago y Teran, the commander of the new presidio, was leisurely on the way to San Xavier. He appears to have stopped at Queretaro and to have made an agreement with the College whereby each party was to manifest its grievances to the other in order to keep these complaints from going to the viceroy, but this contract was never observed. He was delayed considerably at Monclova and later in San Antonio, but long before he had arrived in San Xavier, he had developed a rabid dislike for the missionaries and an insurmountable distaste for the site of the missions. Beginnings of tlze disagreement. Not until the first week in December did he arrive in San Xavier with his company of soldiers. With him came Fray Mariano, who had joined him in San Antonio. The picture that greeted the new commander was certainly discouraging. After the with- drawal of the seventeen men from Los Adaes in June, desertions had been so numerous that Eca y Musquiz could hardly muster eighteen men to welcome the new commander. This was all that remained of the garrison of forty-eight. The ranks of the missionaries showed much less depletion. Rabago y Teran met there Fathers Fray Joseph Lopez, who had come with Governor Barrios y Jauregui, Fray Mariano de Anda, Frays Joseph and Miguel Pinilla, and Fray Joseph Ganzabal. He imme- diately informed them of the orders received from the viceroy, to all of which they gave formal obedience. The missionaries, however, protested the arrangement made concerning the payment of stipends by the soldiers for spiritual ministrations. 35 ~Ibid., 329 _ 330 ; Orden del Gobernador Barrios y Jauregui, June 23, 17 s 1 ; Despacho del gobernador .. . que se restituyan los 1 7 soldados, same date. San F,-anciJco el G,-a11de A,-chive, Vol. 14, PP· 79-84. · d 1 tos fhos sre la erecion de! Presidio de Sn. Xavier . 35Testimomo e os au · · ) . · • 1 Auduncia de Mexico, 92-6-n (Dunn Tr. 1751:176~ 316-318. This long A· G. · . 11 b hereafter referred to as Testimomo de los autos fhos. and complete report w1 e
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