Juan Rivero
Father Juan Rivero, a Jesuit priest, with an outstanding religious performance in the Viceroyalty of New Granada was born on August 15, 1681 in Miraflores de la Sierra, province of Madrid, Spain and died in the Missions of Meta on 17 August 1736. He was the author of the work History of the missions of the Llanos de Casanare and the rivers Orinoco and Meta, reedited in Bogota, Colombia in 1956 by the Library of the Presidency of Colombia (the first edition is from 1883). Life and work
He entered the Society of Jesus in Seville on October 22, 1703 after having studied medicine at the University of Alcalá de Henares for several years. He joined an expedition to the province of the New Kingdom of Granada in 1705. In Bogotá he studied philosophy and theology at La Universidad Javeriana, receiving priestly ordination on March 31, 1714.
He taught humanities at the Neogranadine schools in Pamplona, Honda and Mompós. In 1721 he moved to the Llanera missions in the basin of the Meta river. Their missionary action was carried out in the indigenous peoples of the Indies, Salivas, Guahivos and Chiricoas; in 1730 he was appointed superior general of the missions and during his administration Father José Gumilla began his missionary work in the Orinoco.
His most outstanding work is the History of the missions of the Llanos del Casanare and the rivers Meta and Orinoco written between 1728 and 1729, and which has been considered the main story of the Jesuit missions of the Llanos and Orinoco < / p>
Polar Foundation. Dictionary of History of Venezuela. Caracas: Videodacta (available on [CD-ROM]). 2000.
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