Resumen
It was founded by parents Luis and Manuel Ernotte Berthold, both Jesuit priests, on the right bank of River Yaguary coming to the mouth of this river in Ibicuy.
Información
Fundación
It was founded by parents Luis and Manuel Ernotte Berthold, both Jesuit priests, on the right bank of River Yaguary coming to the mouth of this river in Ibicuy.
Ubicación
It is located 387 kilometers from the city of Corrientes. 28 ° 33’04 “S 56 ° 02’44” W
Características
The first reduction Tome had up to 1500 Indians, led by the two founders were baptized there and learned to till the soil, planting manioc, corn, cotton and wheat. All reductions Tape feeding was low, then the Jesuit priests Pedro Romero and Cristobal Mendoza, Corrientes resolved to go where they bought fifteen hundred head of cattle, the Portuguese rancher Manuel Cabral Alpoin.
Tome second foundation
The prosperity of the first reduction was interrupted by a smallpox epidemic that decimated the population and there was also a proliferation of tigers in the nearby forests that made impossible the survival of the Indians; and also were repeated incursions of the Mamluks, who brought back the death, desolation and captivity in the reductions.
The inhabitants of the first reduction Tome withdrew their things and burned their homes and in long, sad caravan left land Ibicuy down in canoes, rafts and in rudimentary carts rolling parallel to the river. In this way they reached the Uruguay River and rested eight days Yapeyú to restart its march, fighting the waters of adversity until after painful pilgrimage, to its present site, and here the parents Luis Ernotte and Manuel Berthold, founded by second time reducing Tome on July 9, 1638.
The civilizing work of the Jesuits was extraordinary; catechizing was natural daunting task; there they learned to till the soil and cultivate yerbales and cotton were trained in livestock. Organizing large rooms.
The reduction came to have at some point fifteen thousand cattle, sheep eighteen thousand eight hundred horses and mules as much of.
The Indians became notable artisans; for the case we can mention Quiri Gabriel, born in Santo Tomé, who was an accomplished artist, he fused all the bells of the churches that existed in the reductions; Modelling beautiful chalices; built an astronomical clock that did not differ at all with the Europeans; built organs for churches as well as any instrument of music of the time.
They were fearless warriors, fighting alongside Spaniards evicted the Portuguese from the Colonia del Sacramento. In this expedition he participated as head of the second army, the Indian Capiy Christopher, a native of Santo Tomé.
The reduction achieved great prosperity and as the population is made??large, came off of it, a group of families who founded the San Borja reduction in 1690, on the same site of its present location. The reduction continued its progressive evolution ensued until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1768. Most of the Indians returned to the jungle, to their previous state of primitivism and decadence came as a result.