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Rh After selecting twelve companions, he received from the general written instructions, based on the papai decree, whereby Valencia, with the title of custodio, was to proceed to New Spain and there establish the Custodia del Santo Evangelio, extending conversion in accordance with the rules of the order. By a special patent, dated October 23d, he was invested, for himself and successors, with all the power possessed by the general in external jurisdiction, including ecclesiastic censures, as well as in points of conscience, save with two exceptions, and in a royal cédula the friars were commended to the governors in the Indies.