Demographic fluctuations of an extravagant congregation in the capital of New Spain (1703-1753)

Abstract

The preachers were assigned to the evangelization of the central-south zone, including
the current territory of Oaxaca, constituting the province of San Hipólito mártir, dominating the
languages of the region and favoring them before the disputes with Franciscans and Augustinians for
the indoctrination of the Mixtecos and Zapotecos living in the novo-Hispanic capital, in jurisdiction
of the disputing friars. Thus, the Dominicans were in charge of imparting the sacraments to this
parish, canonically recognized as extravagant given the lack of a fixed seat within the novo-Hispanic
capital, but they managed to congregate and erect their chapel under the Rosarian invocation. This
article reconstructs the demographic profile of the extravagant using as main documentary corpus, the
sacramental books of the chapel of the Rosary of the convent of Santo Domingo in Mexico with extreme
dates of 1703-1753, which delimit the temporality of the study.