Spain () ("The Apostles Sts. Peter & Paul, Michoacán") ("St. Joseph, Yucatán") ("The Most Holy Name of Jesus, Guatemala") Four provinces in the Viceroyalty of Peru ("The Twelve Apostles, Lima") ("St. Francis, Quito") ("The Most Holy Trinity, Chile") ("The Holy Faith, the Kingdom of the New Granada") Four more provinces ("St. George, Nicaragua") ("St. Gregory, the Philippine islands") ("St. Anthony, Brazil") ("St. Francis, Malacca") Latin America Argentina The Recollect monastery/convent in Buenos Aires is where the neighborhood of Recoleta got its name. Guatemala The Recollects established a friary in Antigua, Guatemala. It was destroyed by the Santa Marta earthquakes of 1773 and is preserved today as a national monument, La Recolección Architectural Complex. Paraguay The Recollect monastery/convent in Asunción was nationalised by José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia in 1824. Germany and the Lowlands Through the presence of Spanish rule in the Low Countries, the reform took hold there, and then spread to the German friars. By the end of the 17th century, all of the provinces of the German-Belgian Nation of the Order of Friars Minor were Recollect. This branch of the Recollects did not die out with the French Revolution but survived and was reinvigorated in the 19th century. By that period, it was one of the four major branches of the Order of Friars Minor, all of which lived under obedience to the minister general of the order, but under their own procurators general. All of them were merged in the Great Union of 1897 mandated by Pope Leo XIII. At that time, there were seven provinces of Recollects. Notable Recollect friars Jan Boeksent, a Baroque sculptor from Flanders. Francis Davenport (Christopher Davenport), an English theologian, authored a treatise on the Thirty-nine Articles. Joseph de La Roche Daillon, a missionary; he discovered that the indigenes in what is now New York State were using petroleum. Jean Dolbeau, one of the original four Recollects in Canada. He later returned to France. Louis Hennepin accompanied La Salle on his expedition to western New France, helped bring attention to Saint Anthony Falls and Niagara Falls. Denis Jamet, leader of the first Recollects in New France, he completed the first regular convent of the Recollects in 1621. He celebrated the first Recollect mass in the New World in 1615. Joseph Le Caron, a tutor to the duke of New Orleans, one of the four original Recollects in New France. He compiled a