Coahuiltecan Indians and Franciscan missionaries once both lived within the mission's fortresslike walls at the same time.

Our friends had left the town where the missionaries lived, and had hovered over the jungle, until they saw signs of the coming struggle.

By the 1840s, Euro-American settlers were moving into the area, and several missionaries lived in and near "Peoria Village".

In the early 1990s we realised that our elderly missionaries were living longer and returning home to rest from their labours.

By the 1740s, a few adventurers, slave traders and missionaries lived in this region.

For several months, Bachelot and his fellow missionaries lived in three small rented structures, saying their first mass on the island in a grass hut.

These visits further convinced them of the need to send missionaries to live on the island.

Several Franciscan missionaries lived among the Salinas Pueblos.

It encourages missionaries to live with the people they are attempting to convert, to absorb their ways and culture.

Under Japanese occupation, many missionaries were living in concentration camps and were mistreated.