"FAREWELL OF THE BISHOP OF PUEBLA IN 1765 | HE RECOMMENDS TO VISIT PALAFOX´S LIBRARY!"

Carta pastoral, que en su despedida de la Diocesis de la Puebla de los Angeles, dioÌ a sus feligreses ... D. Francisco Fabian i Fuero ... electo Arzobispo de Valencia.

Francisco Fabián y Fuero (Terzaga, Guadalajara, August 7, 1719-Torrehermosa, Zaragoza, August 3, 1801) was a Spanish prelate of the Enlightenment. He was appointed Bishop of Puebla in 1765. In Puebla he promoted a great plan for intellectual, administrative and elcesiastic development that would improve society according to the ideals of the Enlightenment, for which he had the support of his friend, Archbishop Francisco de Lorenzana. He became involved in the debate among the Jesuits in America asking for the dissolution of the Society of Jesus during the IV Mexican Council, where he gave evidence of his vast and solid instruction. In this farewell pastoral letter from the diocese of Puebla de los Angeles, addressed to schools and parish priests, he recommends, among other things, to visit "The Public Library of our Ven. Sir D. Juan de Palafox y Mendoza" of eternal and wise memory, in it "You will learn from the dead what you should teach the living." Ruiz Lasala. Benito Monfort; 223; Aguilar PinÞal,; III, 1739. Not in US Libraries.