Abstract
Continuing with the polemic regarding the authorship of the Doctrina Christiana of 1578, Luis Resines, after carefully considering three other possible authors of the work (Juan Bautista, Bernardino de Sahagún and Alonso de Molina), suggests that the author is very likely to have been Franciscan friar Francisco de Pareja. The investigator bases his conclusions in the surprising similitude of a work authored by Pareja, written during his missionary labor with the Timucuan Indians of the north of La Florida: a work titled Doctrina Christiana, muy vtil y necessaria, assi para los Españoles, como para los naturales en lengua Castellana y Timuquana..., compared to the Doctrina Christiana muy vtil y necessaria assi para los Españoles, como para los naturales en lengua Mexicana y Castellana..., in which he uses identical words, written in the same order and grammar, with the only difference being that one is written "en lengua Castellana y Timuquana" (in Castilian and Timucuan tongues) and the other "en lengua Mexicana y Castellana" (in Mexican and Castilian tongues).