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repeated from time to time to found new missions for the Pimas and Papagos 
and for the Arizona Apaches, though with little success. 
The story of these missionary activities, down to 1791, so far as it has yet 
been written, is best told by two distinguished sons of the college, Fathers 
Espinosa and Arricivita, in the Chrénica A postédlica, which was written at two 
widely separated intervals in the very room still occupied by the archive, and 
from the documents whose remains are still there. The College of the Holy 
Cross was suppressed about 1908, and the church (El Templo de la Cruz, as 
the natives call it) is now subject to the provincial of the province of San 
Pedro y San Pablo, resident at Querétaro. The archive of the ancient college 
is preserved in the library of the church, in a small bookcase and a large trunk. 
In 1772 an inventory of the archive was formed, to which additions have 
been subsequently made, and which will be taken as the basis of this descrip- 
tion. It bears the title: “ Inventario de todo que se contiene en el archivo de 
este Apostdlico Colegio De la St? Cruz de Querétaro; ordenado este afio de 
1772”. It is a leather-bound book, kept either in the bookcase or in the 
trunk. It will be seen below that in 1772 there were in the archive over go 
legajos of unbound records, besides the bound volumes. Although many of 
the documents have disappeared, yet, relatively speaking, the collection is 
remarkably well preserved. Most of the legajos described in the inventory 
are still present in whole or in part. Perhaps, to make an estimate, more than 
half of the original archive remains as it was in 1772. The papers are very 
much mixed, but it would be a relatively small task to restore most of them to 
their former classification. Within each legajo the individual documents or 
expedientes are as a rule numbered to correspond with the inventory. 
Owing to the large number and the scattered condition of the papers, little 
more can be done here than to give the general classification, as shown by the 
inventory, and to make comments on special features of documents actually 
encountered. 
DOCUMENTS IN LEGAJOS. 
The “ Tabla de todos los Titulos, 6 contenido de cada Letra ”’, etc., given in 
the “ Inventario”’, shows the following classes of documents: 
In the Vacio Superior: Account books (libros de misas, de gasto y recivo, 
and de aumento.) 
(Most of the remains of these financial records are now kept in the 
trunk.) 
A. Bulls for the founding of cofradias, papal briefs of indulgences, authenti- 
cation of various images and relics, bulls of the Santa Cruzada. 
9 legajos. 
(A considerable portion of the division still present.) 
B. Papers relating to the Holy Office of the Inquisition; various badges 
(veneras), one being that of Fray Antonio Llinaz, founder of the 
college. 4 legajos. 
C. Reports and letters of bishops and of ecclesiastical and secular cabildos 
in favor of the college and its missions. 4 legajos. 
(A considerable portion present, including important reports of the Texas 
and Coahuila missions for 1708, 1728, 1729, 1759, and data regarding the 
custodia of San Carlos de Sonora.) 
D. Papers concerning the origin and the miracles of the Holy Cross, the 
founding of the college, and those of Guadalupe de Zacatecas and 
Guatemala, and concerning brotherhoods (hermandades), etc. 
