Religiosos mercedarios en Panamá (1519-1992)
Subtitle: con testimonios históricos de Tirso de Molina
By: Juan [sic] Zaporta Pallarés.
Publisher: Revista "Estudios"
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Mercedarians -- Panama -- History.; Mercedarians -- Panama -- History -- Sources.; Panama -- Church history.
Description: "Offers materials for history of Mercedarian order in Panama. Present on isthmus from 1519-1861, order returned in 1980 to work among Panama City's poor. Eclectic combination of colonial documents, biographical notes, and recent testimony, including eyewitness account of 1989 US invasion, whose impact author compares to 1671 sacking of city by pirate Henry Morgan"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Apéndice documental": p. [203]-294.