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Rh abode than two days' journey. All privileges granted to friars for the Indies by preceding pontiffs were confirmed.

Ever since the projected transfer of Córdoba's discoveries to the admiral of Flanders, the Flemings had taken a certain interest in the new region, and with the authorization issued to Franciscans generally to engage in conversion, three friars of that nationality obtained permission to begin the long delayed work. They were Juan de Tecto, guardian of the convent at Ghent, the emperor's confessor, and a most learned man, Juan de Aora, and Pedro de Gante, laybrother, a man of talent and exemplary life, who acquired great respect and influence, the latter chiefly through his relationship to Charles V.

Leaving Spain in May, they reached Villa Rica