Señor obispo (Francisco Marroquín)
The legacy of Francisco Marroquín, founder and first bishop of the Archdiocese of Guatemala, would have been familiar to Ximénez and his contemporaries. Having accompanied Fray Juan de Zumárraga and “los letrados que [iban] a constituir la nueva audiencia” to Mexico in 1529 (Saenz 16), Marroquín arrives to Guatemala in 1530 to begin his service as parish priest, a position offered to him by Governor Pedro de Alvarado (Ibid., 19). Drawing from the chronicles of Dominican historian Antonio de Remesal, Karl Scherzer notes the following in his 1857 edition of the Popol Wuj: