San_Vitores_Martyrdom_Site

San Vitores Martyrdom Site

San Vitores Martyrdom Site

United States historic place

The San Vitores Martyrdom Site, located 0.7 miles south of Bijia Point off Guam Highway 4 in Tamuning, Guam, has significance from 1672. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

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It is an important site in marking where Father Diego Luis de San Vitores was killed, and for association with the Spanish-Chamorro Wars against the imposition of Catholic Christianity in Guam. At the time of NRHP listing, the site was marked by a wooden cross and by a historical plaque placed there in 1940.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Stephen F. Lander (October 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: San Vitores Martyrdom Site". National Park Service. and accompanying photo from 1974


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