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dard featuring Our Lady of the Remedies. He invites exactly twelve Franciscan friars to play a similar role and function in the "spiritual conquest" of New Mexico as that of the famed Franciscan "Twelve Apostles" in Mexico. In his contract, Onate even insists on gaining possession of a New Mexican woman to act as "a second Malinche" (D/O 48, 321), acting for him as indispensable advocate and translator a

s that first Malinche had for Cortes. Restaging key significant patterns of earlier conquests, this conquest assembles and enacts its own genealogical history, offering a Mannerist rendition of Cortes's conquest, now restaged in another Mexico. Onate's official entrada into the territory is celebrated by "a sermon, a great ecclesiastical and secular celebration, a great salute and rejoicing, and, in the afternoon, a comedia" (DJO 315). The comedia is of particular interest here, as it literally restages a central performative episode of Cortes's conquest of Tenochti