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Show The Spaniard In Mexico, c When Cortez landed at Vera Cruz and in honor of the day being "Good Friday," gave the place the sacred 1 name, he set the style of Mexico for the land to be called after saints and sacred things rather than people. The glory of the spirit of Crusader ap- 2 pealed more to him than perpetuating his own name as the cognomen of country. Following in the wake ol ' this warlike Spaniard came troops ol friars, some of them pious and truly 5 noble, while others were no more hu man than the average type of men ol that day and generation. A Catholic priest. Hid&ljo, occupies a prominent place in the calendar of the country's liberator: while dreams and visions actuated others to explore the country 1 and set up the cross. |