USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1690, Father Massanet established the mission San Francisco de los Tejas mission. This mission was the first mission in east Texas and would ignite Spanish colonization in the area.

Detailed explanation-2: -(flourished late 17th century). The first Spanish mission in East Texas was founded in 1690 by Damián Massanet, a Spanish priest of the Franciscan order of the Roman Catholic Church. He is also called Fray Massanet or Father Massanet.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1690, one year after Father Massenet set fire to La Salle’s doomed Fort St. Louis settlement, he blessed the timber church of San Francisco de los Tejas – the first Spanish mission in east Texas, near present-day Augusta.

Detailed explanation-4: -1690 – Father Damian Massanet set up the first mission in East Texas called San Francisco de los Tejas. Father Francisco Hidalgo builds San Juan Bautista. Jose de Escandon founded Laredo and 20 other settlements near the Rio Grande.

Detailed explanation-5: -Francisco Hidalgo, the most patient and persistent advocate of missions among the Indians of East Texas, was born in Spain in 1659. Circumstantial evidence suggests that he was orphaned early. At the age of fifteen he received the religious habit of the Franciscans.