Tercero catecismo y exposición de la doctrina cristiana por sermones (Third Provincial Council of Lima, 1583; approved 1584)

A council of the Peruvian church commissioned thirty-one model sermons for parish priests and had them translated into the general language of Cuzco. Its preface is a manual of how to preach to Andean congregations — plain style, short clauses, no rhetoric borrowed from the court — and it says, without embarrassment, that the book exists because many doctrina priests lacked the language, or theology, or both. It also tells them to study Andean religion thoroughly in order to discredit it.