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=== Cultural legacy === [[File:Monumento a Bartolomé de las Casas (Sevilla).JPG|thumbnail|Monument to Bartolomé de las Casas in [[Seville]], Spain.]] In 1848, Ciudad de San Cristóbal, then the capital of the Mexican state of [[Chiapas]], was renamed [[San Cristóbal de Las Casas]] in honor of its first bishop. His work is a particular inspiration behind the work of the Las Casas Institute at [[Blackfriars, Oxford|Blackfriars Hall]], Oxford.<ref name="Las Casas Institute" /> He is also often cited as a predecessor of the [[liberation theology]] movement. Bartolomé is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Commemoration (Anglicanism)|commemoration]] on [[July 20|20 July]],<ref>{{cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=2021-03-27|website=The Church of England|language=en}}</ref> on 18 July, and at the [[Calendar of Saints (Lutheran)|Evangelical Lutheran Church]] on 17 July. In the [[Catholic Church]], the Dominicans introduced his cause for [[canonization]] in 1976.<ref name="McBrien" /> In 2002 the church began the process for his [[beatification]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.la-croix.com/Archives/2002-10-03/Ouverture-de-la-cause-de-beatification-de-Bartolome-de-La-Casas-_NP_-2002-10-03-166954|title=Ouverture de la cause de béatification de Bartolomé de La Casas|newspaper=La Croix|date=October 3, 2002|via=www.la-croix.com|access-date=6 July 2020|archive-date=7 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707081658/https://www.la-croix.com/Archives/2002-10-03/Ouverture-de-la-cause-de-beatification-de-Bartolome-de-La-Casas-_NP_-2002-10-03-166954|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was among the first to develop a view of unity among humankind in the New World, stating that "All people of the world are humans," and that they had a natural right to [[liberty]] – a combination of [[Thomism|Thomist]] rights philosophy with [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustinian]] [[political theology]].<ref>{{harvcoltxt|Tierney|1997|pp=272–274}}</ref> In this capacity, an [[ecumenical]] human rights institute located in [[San Cristóbal de las Casas]], the Centro Fray Bartolomé de las Casas de Derechos Humanos, was established by Bishop [[Samuel Ruiz]] in 1989.<ref name="Frayba" /><ref>Michael Tangeman, ''Mexico at the Crossroads: Politics, the Church, and the Poor''. Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books 1995, p. 72.</ref> [[File:Residencial Las Casas en Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.jpg|thumb|left|Residencial Las Casas in Santurce, San Juan]] [[Residencial Las Casas]] in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico is named after Las Casas. He is also featured on the [[Guatemalan quetzal]] one centavo coin (Q0.01).<ref>{{cite web|title=Bills and Currency in Current Circulation|url=http://www.banguat.gob.gt/inc/ver.asp?id=/en/currency%20and%20bills/Monedas%20y%20Billetes%20Translation.htm&e=18108|publisher=Banco de Guatemala|access-date=12 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923100258/http://www.banguat.gob.gt/inc/ver.asp?id=%2Fen%2Fcurrency%20and%20bills%2FMonedas%20y%20Billetes%20Translation.htm&e=18108|archive-date=September 23, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The small town of [[Lascassas, Tennessee]], in the United States has also been named after him.<ref name="school">[http://www.les.rcs.k12.tn.us/Welcome.htm A Glimpse at the History of Lascassas School] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211155113/http://www.les.rcs.k12.tn.us/Welcome.htm |date=February 11, 2012 }}, Lascassas School website, accessed April 19, 2008.</ref>
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