Born at Tarazona, Aragon, Spain, Padre Florencio Ibañez entered the Franciscan Order at the Convento de Nuestra Señora de Jesus of Zaragosa on February 8, 1757. At the Convento Grande in his province as well as at that of Calatayud he was choirmaster. Arriving at San Fernando College in Mexico City on May l, 1770, together with thirty-nine other Franciscans, besides holding the office of preacher, he was attached to the choir of San Fernando until August 16, 1774. A fine artist as well as a musician of no little ability, he spent considerable time at the college in painting large choir books, samples of which were brought to the Mission Santa Barbara in 1882 by Fray Jose Maria de Jesus Romo. In failing health in 1774, he obtained a transfer from the college to the province of Michoacan where he was again employed as choirmaster and professor of Latin at San Miguel de Allende until 1781, when he joined the college of Santa Cruz de Queretaro. There he became an Indian missionary serving in Sonora. After seventeen years as a missionary, he returned to Queretaro and once again to San Fernando in 1800. The next year he was on his way to California. Embarking on the frigate Concepción, he arrived at Monterey on August 9, 1801. At Carmel Mission he administered baptism on August 16 and 18. He was stationed first at Mission San Antonio from September 20, 1801 to August 17, 1803. In that same month he was transferred to Mission Soledad, where he made his first baptismal entry on October 20. He remained at that mission until November 26, 1818. Ibañez had also spent a short time at Mission San Juan Bautista, August 17 to September 14, 1806, and baptized there again, August 22 and 26, 1808. He died at Soledad on November 26, 1818.
The previous year, V.F. de Sarria wrote that he considered Ibañez as a man of only ordinary ability. In matters connected with temporal management, Ibañez is credited with great capability and intelligence. In person he had great strength, was tall with broad shoulders. He was described in records as possessing a good build, of having a light complexion, a somewhat reddish beard, and a face large and thin. He was very kind to the poor and lowly and loved to instruct the neophytes in their work and in music and to teach the common soldiers to read and write. On José Joaquin Arrillaga's second coming to California, Ibañez welcomed him with music and songs, the words of which he himself had composed. He is also remembered as a dramatist of ability: his "Pastorela," a nativity play, was, it is said, a prime favorite in California.
The previous year, V.F. de Sarria wrote that he considered Ibañez as a man of only ordinary ability. In matters connected with temporal management, Ibañez is credited with great capability and intelligence. In person he had great strength, was tall with broad shoulders. He was described in records as possessing a good build, of having a light complexion, a somewhat reddish beard, and a face large and thin. He was very kind to the poor and lowly and loved to instruct the neophytes in their work and in music and to teach the common soldiers to read and write. On José Joaquin Arrillaga's second coming to California, Ibañez welcomed him with music and songs, the words of which he himself had composed. He is also remembered as a dramatist of ability: his "Pastorela," a nativity play, was, it is said, a prime favorite in California.
Born at Tarazona, Aragon, Spain, Padre Florencio Ibañez entered the Franciscan Order at the Convento de Nuestra Señora de Jesus of Zaragosa on February 8, 1757. At the Convento Grande in his province as well as at that of Calatayud he was choirmaster. Arriving at San Fernando College in Mexico City on May l, 1770, together with thirty-nine other Franciscans, besides holding the office of preacher, he was attached to the choir of San Fernando until August 16, 1774. A fine artist as well as a musician of no little ability, he spent considerable time at the college in painting large choir books, samples of which were brought to the Mission Santa Barbara in 1882 by Fray Jose Maria de Jesus Romo. In failing health in 1774, he obtained a transfer from the college to the province of Michoacan where he was again employed as choirmaster and professor of Latin at San Miguel de Allende until 1781, when he joined the college of Santa Cruz de Queretaro. There he became an Indian missionary serving in Sonora. After seventeen years as a missionary, he returned to Queretaro and once again to San Fernando in 1800. The next year he was on his way to California. Embarking on the frigate Concepción, he arrived at Monterey on August 9, 1801. At Carmel Mission he administered baptism on August 16 and 18. He was stationed first at Mission San Antonio from September 20, 1801 to August 17, 1803. In that same month he was transferred to Mission Soledad, where he made his first baptismal entry on October 20. He remained at that mission until November 26, 1818. Ibañez had also spent a short time at Mission San Juan Bautista, August 17 to September 14, 1806, and baptized there again, August 22 and 26, 1808. He died at Soledad on November 26, 1818.
The previous year, V.F. de Sarria wrote that he considered Ibañez as a man of only ordinary ability. In matters connected with temporal management, Ibañez is credited with great capability and intelligence. In person he had great strength, was tall with broad shoulders. He was described in records as possessing a good build, of having a light complexion, a somewhat reddish beard, and a face large and thin. He was very kind to the poor and lowly and loved to instruct the neophytes in their work and in music and to teach the common soldiers to read and write. On José Joaquin Arrillaga's second coming to California, Ibañez welcomed him with music and songs, the words of which he himself had composed. He is also remembered as a dramatist of ability: his "Pastorela," a nativity play, was, it is said, a prime favorite in California.
The previous year, V.F. de Sarria wrote that he considered Ibañez as a man of only ordinary ability. In matters connected with temporal management, Ibañez is credited with great capability and intelligence. In person he had great strength, was tall with broad shoulders. He was described in records as possessing a good build, of having a light complexion, a somewhat reddish beard, and a face large and thin. He was very kind to the poor and lowly and loved to instruct the neophytes in their work and in music and to teach the common soldiers to read and write. On José Joaquin Arrillaga's second coming to California, Ibañez welcomed him with music and songs, the words of which he himself had composed. He is also remembered as a dramatist of ability: his "Pastorela," a nativity play, was, it is said, a prime favorite in California.
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