Catala Island


Catala Island (49˚50'15" 127˚03'10" Entrance to Esperanza Inlet, W side of Vancouver I), Catala Passage (52˚16'00" 128˚43'00" Between Bray I and McInnes I, SW of Price I, Milbanke Sd). Magin Catalá (1761–1830), an energetic Franciscan monk with a reputation for saintliness, served as chaplain at Spain’s Nootka Sd establishment in 1793–94. He was born in Spain and arrived in Mexico in 1786. After Nootka he lived at Santa Clara Mission in California, where he was noted for miracles and...

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