Pedro de Gante and the chapel-school of San José de los Naturales

The Flemish lay brother who reached Mexico in 1523, a year before the twelve Franciscans, and who built beside the church of San Francisco a chapel, a school and a row of workshops. Mendieta calls it the first and only seminary in New Spain for every kind of trade. A stammerer his own friars could barely follow, he taught in Nahuatl, put a doctrina into print in it, and would not be ordained priest or made archbishop.