Identifier: californiapadres00saun (find matches)
Title: The California padres and their missions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Saunders, Charles Francis, 1859-1941 Chase, J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton), b. 1864, joint author
Subjects: Franciscans Missions
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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untain at Mission San LuisRJEY 34 San Antonio de Pala 47 San Juan Capistrano 63 One of the Bells, Mission San Juan Capistrano 66 San Gabriel ArcAngel 91 San Fernando 109 In the Rulned Church, Mission San Fernando .114 San Buenaventura 137 xi Santa Barbara 155 / Franciscan Brothers at Work, Mission SantaBarbara 162 Santa In£s 177 La Purisima 205 San Luis Obispo 225 San Miguel Arcangel 245 - San Antonio de Padua 261 Old Adobe Outbuilding, said to have been used yas a Jail at Mission San Antonio de Padua . 266 An interesting survival of Mission architecture, show-ing method of roofing, arching of windows, etc. SOLEDAD 277 San Carlos de Monterey on the Carmel . . .289 San Juan Bautista 311 • In the Indian Cemetery, Mission San JuanBautista 322 Santa Cruz 325 Drawn from a photograph copyrighted, igo4, by C. C.Pierce 6° Co., Los Angeles, Cal. Santa Clara de Asis 337 San Jos:fi 355 Dolores 379 In the Cemetery, Mission Dolores, San Fran-cisco 382 C^(X\>t^ Ont SAN DIEGO DE ALCALA i^l Mi
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MAP SHOWING APPROXIMATE SITUATIONS OF THEFRANCISCAN MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA San Diego de Alcala, the Mother Mission, and howTHE Devil had a Beating there O! an Diegos antiquities center at Old Town — the adobe^^ cradle of modern California. There, in the spring of1769, foregathered the friars and leather-jacketed soldiers,the ships and the mule trains, the servants and the cattle ofPortolas motley expedition; their purpose, to make a start atinsuring the title of CathoHc Spain to her long-claimed UpperCalifornia coast, upon which Russia and England were show-ing signs of poimcing; the means, not arms, but religion. Andthere on July 16 of that year, upon the slope of a hill overlook-ing the San Diego River Valley and the placid mirror of FalseBay, was founded very modestly the Mother Mission ofCalifornia, and dedicated to St. James of Alcala. A woodencross had been planted and blessed and a httle brush chapelconstructed, and in it high mass was celebrated by PadresJunipero Serra and F

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