Juan de Padilla

Juan de Padilla, OFM (1500–1542) was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary who spent much of his life exploring North America with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. He was killed in what would become Kansas by Native Americans in 1542.

For the Castilian revolutionary, see Juan Lopez de Padilla.
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Juan de Padilla

OFM
Bornc. 1490
Toledo, Spain
Died1542
Kansas, Current U.S.A
NationalitySpanish
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