Francisco Vázquez de Coronado assembled an enormous expedition at Compostela in 1540 – 1542 to explore and find the mystical Seven Golden Cities of Cibola as described by Fray Marcos de Niza.

In 1539, Moorish slave Estevanico led an advance party of Fray Marcos de Niza's Spanish expedition.

La Granjilla was designed and constructed between 1561 and 1569, by Gaspar de Vega, Juan Bautista de Toledo, Juan de Herrera, Pedro de Tolosa, Fray Marcos de Cardona and Petre Janson.

When in 1539, Fray Marcos de Niza returned from Pimera Alta reporting he had seen the fabled cities of Cibola, Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza sent Diaz as the leader of a small expedition preliminarily to determine if reports by Fray Marcos were true.

In July, 1540, Diaz was sent to take the now-mistrusted and hated Fray Marcos back to Mexico and ( say some reports ) to take over leadership of the outpost at San Geronimo ( or Hieronimo ) in the valley of Corazones and from there to attempt contact with the fleet of Hernando de Alarcon, which was to be the maritime arm of Coronado's expedition.

“ Nuevas interpretaciones sobre las aventuras de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Esteban de Dorantes, y Fray Marcos de Niza ”.

Fray Thomas de San Martin O. P., founder of National University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru.

Fray Thomas de San Martín ( March 7, 1482 – August 31, 1555 ) was the founder of the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, and a notable Spanish scholar.

* The Fray Marcos — Williams, Arizona ; restored and reopened as a historic hotel and train depot for the Grand Canyon Railway

Daet also originated from ancient Bicol term " daet " which according to the first Bicol Spanish Dictionary " Vocabulario dela Lengua Vicol " authored by Fray Marcos de Lisboa would mean " to make friend " or " to be reconciled ".

Stone Inscription, thought by some to be a forgery from the 1930s, very often ( and perhaps wrongly ) attributed to Fray Marcos de Niza, located in Pima Canyon near Phoenix, Arizona South Mountain Park.

Fray Marcos de Niza ( March 25, 1558 ) was a Franciscan friar.

Preceded by Estevanico, the Moorish companion of Cabeza de Vaca in his wanderings and the Black Mexican of Zuni traditions, Fray Marcos left Culiacán in March 1539, crossed south-eastern Arizona, penetrated to the Zuni or the Seven Cities of Cibola, and in September returned to Culiacán.

He saw Cibola only from a distance, and his description of it as equal in size to Mexico City was probably exact ; but he embodied much mere hearsay in his report, Descubrimiento de las siete ciudades, which led Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to make his famous expedition next year to Zuni Pueblo, in present-day New Mexico, of which Fray Marcos was the guide ; and the realities proved a great disappointment.

On August 28, 1513, the Santa María de La Antigua del Darién mission was erected with Fray Juan de Quevedo as the first Catholic Bishop in the continental Americas.

At the end of the 1940s Gombrowicz was trying to gain a position among Argentine literary circles by publishing articles, giving lectures in Fray Mocho café, and finally, by publishing in 1947 a Spanish translation of Ferdydurke written with the help of his friends, among them Virgilio Piñera.

One of the first primitive schools for Native Americans was founded by Fray Pedro de Gante in 1523.

The mission planning was begun in 1767 under the leadership of Fray Junípero Serra, O. F. M.

Fray Gerónimo Boscana, a Franciscan scholar who was stationed at San Juan Capistrano for more than a decade beginning in 1812, compiled what is widely considered to be the most comprehensive study of prehistoric religious practices in the San Juan Capistrano valley.

The church was finally completed in 1806, and blessed by Fray Estévan Tapís on the evening of September 7 ; a two-day long fiesta followed.

It is clear from his diaries that Lasuén struggled with loneliness and perhaps some depression brought about by the extreme conditions he encountered in San Diego when he was asked to return to restore order after the murder of Fray Jayme.

New Spain's Province of Las Californias was divided into Alta California and Baja California on May 19, 1773 near San Juan Bautista Creek by Fray Francisco Palóu.

Recognizing the Lady as the Virgin Mary, Juan Diego went to the bishop as instructed, but the Spanish bishop, Fray Juan de Zumárraga was doubtful and told Juan Diego he needed a sign.

According to Fray Diego Durán it was " lofty and magnificently built.

The first grammatical and lexical description of the Huastec language accessible to Europeans was by Fray Andrés de Olmos, who also wrote the first such grammars of Nahuatl and Totonac.

There are twelve pueblos, whose houses are built of mud and are two stories high .” The first colonizing expedition into New Mexico was led by Juan de Oñate in 1598, who left the Tiwan province under the spiritual care of Fray Juan Claros.

Alongside Angel, he was also working on a series of other projects such as Buffy, Fray, Astonishing X-Men and Firefly, which would later also lead to the film Serenity.

Although she was sympathetic to the Comuneros, she was persuaded by Ochoa de Landa and her confessor Fray John of Avila that supporting the revolt would irreparably damage the country and her son's kingship and she therefore refused to sign a document granting her support.

Lope de Vega's play El niño inocente de La Guardia ( The Innocent Child of La Guardia ) was possibly inspired by the legend recounted by Fray Rodrigo de Yepes.

* Harth Fray – Mel's twin brother, who was attacked by a vampire during a theft with Mel.

The Franciscan Friar Juan Plasencia and Fray Diego de Oropesa founded Meycauayan in the same year and for a time was the capital, people were able to flourish, so rich, that the sons are six of the best in the province.

The next year, when Simeona Mangaba learned of what happened to the original group of settlers, she, together with Fray Geronimo de Jesus, a Spanish friar, tried to unite them once more and convinced them to return to the place where it was first founded.

Among his most important Catholic churches are the Cathedral of Santa Ana, ( where is the image of the patron saint of the city ), the El Calvario church ( rebuilt in the late 19th century by Fray Felipe de Jesús Moraga, which was destroyed partially by the earthquake of January 13, 2001, and subsequently rebuilt ), Church El Carmen ( which is administered by the Dominican priests since 1929 ), the Church of Santa Lucia, San Lorenzo church, Santa Barbara Church, the Mother of the Saviour parish church and the San José Obrero.

In 1502, Fray Nicolas de Ovando was sent to Isla de la Mona to keep an eye, from a safe distance, on the native revolts occurring in Hispaniola.

After the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the story of Aztlán gained importance and was reported by Fray Diego Durán in 1581 and others to be a kind of Eden-like paradise, free of disease and death, which existed somewhere in the far north.

Since 1863 the industrial plant, owned by the Societe de Fray Bentos Giebert & Cie., was operating on the banks of the Uruguay River at Villa Independencia, Uruguay, later called Fray Bentos, where the extract was manufactured.

That same year, whilst in Madrid, Acosta was made a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, for his work in the editing of Fray Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra's Historia geografica, civil y natural de la isla de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico.

The settlement was made a regular municipality in 1702 and a regular parish in 1716 with Fray Diego de Alday as the first curate.

This is another contribution made by Fray Luis to make Scripture available to those who could not read Latin.

It is probable that the first narrator of the " I don't understand " story was Fray Toribio de Benavente, a. k. a. Motolinia, who at the end of chapter 8 of the third book of his Historia de los indios de la Nueva España ( History of the Indians of New Spain, written c. 1541 ) says: " because speaking with those Indians of that coast, to that which the Spaniards asked the Indians responded: Tectetán, Tectetán, which means: I don't understand you, I don't understand you: the Christians corrupted the word, and not understanding what the Indians meant, said: Yucatán is the name of this land ; and the same happened with a cape made by the land there, which they named the Cape of Cotoch, and Cotoch in that language means house.

More than twenty years later, when Eberling was questioned about the murder of Fray, he made statements that corroborated previously unpublished information in the police report.

The adoption of the name Corella was made at the behest of Fray Jose Maria Cañabas, then the parish priest of Baclayon and endorsed by Fray Felix Gullen, the first Spanish priest.

It originated with a remark made by Fray Francisco de Ugalde to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( Charles I of Spain ), who as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and king of Spain, had a large empire, which included many territories in Europe and vast territories in the Americas.

Finally, shortly after the last church was destroyed, Fray Tomas de Alfafara finally led the construction of a new parish church, together with its two belfries made of bricks and stones.

The Franciscans, Fray Juan del Sacramento and Fray Jose dela Virgen, initiated the construction of a church made of bricks and stones.

Fray Santiago de San Pedro de Alcantara completed the construction in 1730 and added a convent made of wooden materials in 1735.