Vasco de Quiroga

Vasco de Quiroga (– 14 March 1565) was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Michoacán and as a judge of the Real Audiencia of Mexico.

Quotes about Vasco de Quiroga

• Vasco de Quiroga had displayed so much wisdom and disinterestedness in the affairs of Michoacan, that although not a churchman, the bishopric was offered to him as being the person most suitable for the position.
  • Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Mexico

• As the proceedings of Guzman were fresh in everybody's mind, he heard of them, and at once went into the neighborhood of Tzintzuntzan to relieve, if possible, the condition of the people of Calzonzi. They had fled in terror from their homes, deserting the towns and hiding in the mountains. Quiroga, with great perseverance and gentleness, found them out, and prevailed at last upon the poor Tarascans, who came to love him with passionate devotion.
  • Susan Hale, The Story of Mexico

• One of the greatest missionaries to the Mexican aborigines.
  • Francisco Elguero Iturbide, Archdiocese of Michoacan (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia