RELIGION "Fra Bartolomeo represses the inconsiderate zeal of Cortez;" Hernan Cortés (1485 - 1547) ordered his soldiers to destroy the pagan idols and the Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484 - 1566) rushes to the defense of the natives of the place. Dalley engraving of a drawing by Sergent Marceau; from historical treatise on the customs of the peoples before the Spanish Conquest. Watercolor print of the mid-nineteenth century