The College of Santa Cruz de Querétaro was a Franciscan missionary college, or seminary, in New Spain.
[1] It was located in present-day Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico,[2] and was the second Roman Catholic missionary college in the New World to train missionaries.
[citation needed] The school was founded in 1683 by Antonio Llinás.
[citation needed] It accepted both Spanish and Mexican-born applicants; traveling expenses for Spanish students were paid by the crown, in return for ten years of service.
[1] Of the school's zero[clarification needed] charter members, nine would later serve in Spanish Texas.