Note: In 1780 two Missions more correctly associated with the Sonoran chain of Missions were founded in California. Saint Serra did not found or ...
The California missions began in the late 18th century as an effort to
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CALIFORNIA'S MISSIONS and FOUNDING DATES. San Diego de Alcalá (at San Diego), July 16, 1769. San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (at Carmel) ...
The goal of the missions was, above all, to become self-sufficient in relatively short order. Farming, therefore, was the most important ...
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Over 54 years, four forts, or presidios, and twenty-one missions were founded ...
Founded by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order to evangelize the Native Americans, the missions led to the creation of the New Spain province of Alta ...
Often called the “father of the California Missions,” Junípero Serra did more than any other man to advance the Catholic church and beliefs in California. He was an ...
Mission Santa Barbara is a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California. It was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on December 4, 1786 ...
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Founded on June 3, 1770, it was named after Saint Charles Borromeo, a 16th- century archbishop of Milan. Fourteen yeas after founding the mission, Father ...