Aztec Priests | Respond to the Spanish, 1524

As Indian resistance to the requerimiento—the requirement for obedience to the Catholic Church—indicated, most Aztecs did not want to renounce their own religion in favor of Catholicism. In 1524 twelve Franciscan friars organized a series of meetings with Aztec political and religious leaders, who defended the legitimacy of their own customs. In the 1560s another friar published the notes from these meetings, providing insight into how Aztec leaders viewed the differences between their own beliefs and those of the Spanish.