Tom McCabes Genealogy 2022

"Twenty-six soldiers under the leadership of Captain Martin de Olivas left Durango the following day, but it was not soon enough to save the Spaniards surrounded by hostile Tepehuanes in the church at Santiago Papasquiaro. Joined by others from Santa Catalina who had killed Hernando de Tovar and those from Atotonilco, the Tepehuanes at Santiago Papasquiaro now numbered approximately 500 on horseback and on foot, led by a Tepehuan known as Francisco. On the eighteenth, the insurgents first burned all the dwellings in the place and then set fire to the church. They then offered their captives a chance to escape, If they would give up their weapons, the Tepehuanes would allow the Spanish, with their wives and children, to go free. The desperate Spanish replied that they would like nothing better than to depart for the capital and leave their lands to the Tepehuanes. They then formed a procession, led by Diego de Orozco, who carried the eucharist, followed by Lieutenant JUAN DE CASTILLA, who held a large statue of the Virgin. At first the warriors seemed to remember the teachings of the Jesuits and approached the eucharist on their knees. They demanded the Spaniards' weapons which were given up. Then one warrior seized a sword, attacked Orozco and killed him, crying out that his god had told him that today all the Christians must die. Only six survived the general massacre that followed; three Spaniards, Andrés de Urrué, Pedro Cruz de Gelada' and Sim6n Martinez—one badly wounded—and two boys, ages seven and ten, along with Maria Chåvez, their mulatta nurse."

Taken from Chapter 7 of THE TEPEHUAN REVOLT OF 1616, Charlotte M. Gradie,The University of Utah Press,2000.