Christianity in The Americas Earlier than Columbus: Unfamiliar Origins and Insights

Who was Fray (“Friar”) Servando Teresa de Mier?

What did he do and what did he write? Fray Mier was born in 1763 in Monterrey, Mexico, and died in 1827 as a visitor in Mexico’s Presidential Palace. He got here to be the preferred man in Mexico. Two centuries later, Fray Mier is unknown even in his native Mexico. Why and the way did this occur? The life and writings of Fray Mier is a “Mier Paradox” described in Christianity in The Americas Earlier than Columbus: Unfamiliar Origins and Insights. Dr. Mier’s writings give unfamiliar origins and insights to the historical past of Mexico earlier than and after Columbus. Mier writing: “And, who doesn’t know of the blasphemies of the incredulous towards the Christian faith, whose Divinity, they are saying, was testing them for sixteen centuries, as much as crushing their bones, with its enlargement into all of the world by solely twelve males, and with the universality of the Church; and ultimately a New World was found the place nothing was identified of it? It’s false. All through America, monuments and vestige evidences of Christianity had been discovered, in accordance with the unanimous testimony of the missionaries.”

These early Catholic missionaries had been the supply of Fray Mier’s analysis and writings. Mier wrote his “Farewell Letter to the Mexicans,” 1820, whereas incarcerated in San Juan de Ullúa Fort. Mier’s “Farewell Letter. . .,” has this closing mandate: “My fellow countrymen cease howling and instruct yourselves. . . The Deists themselves at this time confess that the traditional preaching of the Gospel in America is past doubt.” Pursuant to Fray Mier’s mandate to his Mexican countrymen, we too should instruct ourselves on these early Catholic missionaries’ writings, which give historic authenticity to the traditional preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ within the Americas earlier than Columbus.