Granadilla de Abona: Don Francisco Roque Pérez Montesdeoca (1696-1757)

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A member of an illustrious family, our subject opted for an ecclesiastical career and, after obtaining a chaplaincy, he received sacred orders up to the priesthood. As a priest he was assigned to the parish of San Antonio de Padua in Granadilla de Abona, where he served as chaplain for three decades,

Collaborating with the local parish priests in the celebration of masses and sacraments, as well as in attending to worship in the existing hermitages in the jurisdiction. He was born in Granadilla de Abona on Email Marketing List Thursday, August 16, 1696, being the son of the ensign of Caballos Corazas, Don Melchor Afonso Montesdeoca, a native of Adeje, and Doña Ana Pérez, who was from the first town,



Both farmers and residents of said place. On the 23rd of that same month he received baptism in the parish church of San Antonio de Padua, from the hands of the parish priest Don Salvador González; He was named “Francisco Roque” and his father's brother Don Bartolomé Afonso, “young man”, son of the aforementioned lieutenant and his first wife, Doña Gregoria de Segovia, deceased and a native of Good view…