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Agurto, Pedro de

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AGURTO, Pedro de. - Augustinian, first bishop of Cebu in the Philippines, b. in Mexico, on an unknown date. Having entered the Order, in 1553 he matriculated at the Mexican University. In 1584 he was provincial of his Order, and at the third Council of Mexico (1585) he took part as a consultor theologian. He knew the Aztec and Tarascan languages perfectly. In 1595 he was elected bishop of Cebu; he died on 14 Oct. 1608.

In the question of the advisability or otherwise of admitting the Indians to the sacraments, especially to the Eucharist, A. took the side of the natives, and in 1573 he published a treatise to demonstrate the thesis of the obligation of their admission to the Eucharist and to Extreme Unction.

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BIBL.: Streit, Bibl., I, pp. 50-51; IV, p. 361; M. Cuevas, Historia de la Iglesia en Mexico, II, Tlalpam, (Mexico) 1922, p. 431 and passim: R. Ricard, La «conquête spirituelle» du Mexique, Paris 1933.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 587.

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