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Diego Ruiz Ortiz (24 July 1532 – 1571) was a Castilian Augustinian friar and missionary to the Viceroyalty of Peru. He is regarded as the first Christian martyr of Peru.
Ortiz was born in Getafe and orphaned by the age of twelve, when he moved to Seville. He joined the Augustinian order at the age of fifteen. He arrived in Peru as a missionary in 1548. He learned Quechua and Aymara and evangelized in Puná. In 1563, he was appointed curate of Yanacache and later superior or sacristan of the convent in Cuzco. In 1566, he was sent as a priest to Capinota.
In 1569, Ortiz was sent to join Marcos García in Vilcabamba, the capital of the Neo-Inca State. With royal permission, he established a hospital and school in Vilcabamba. García was exiled in 1570. When the Inca, Titu Cusi, died suddenly in 1571, his military captains tortured and murdered Ortiz at the urging of Titu Cusi's widow, Angelina Polanquilaco.
Notes
- ^ Benito Rodríguez 2018.
- ^ Redden 2016, p. 100.
Sources
- Benito Rodríguez, José Antonio (2018). "Ruiz Ortiz, Diego". Diccionario Biográfico Español. Real Academia de la Historia.
- Redden, Andrew, ed. (2016). The Collapse of Time: The Martyrdom of Diego Ortiz (1571) by Antonio de la Calancha . De Gruyter Open. doi:10.1515/9783110468298.