- Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park - California State Parks
The Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park sits atop Mission Hill offering a patio, gardens, and excellent views of the city The park features the only building left of the 12th California Mission, Misión la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz, founded by the Franciscans in 1791
- Mission Santa Cruz - Wikipedia
Mission Santa Cruz (Spanish: La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz, lit The Mission of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross) is a replica Spanish Californian mission in Santa Cruz, California
- Mission Santa Cruz – Holy Cross Catholic Church of Santa Cruz
The Roman Catholic Parish of Holy Cross is the home of Mission Santa Cruz, the 12th link in the chain of 21 historic Spanish Franciscan missions that stretch from San Diego to Sonoma “Santa Cruz” means “Holy Cross” in Spanish
- Santa Cruz - California Missions Foundation
Mission Santa Cruz, dedicated twelfth in the mission chain on August 28, 1791 by Farther Lasuén, is a tiny mission along the northern California coast Unlike the rest of California’s missions, leaders did not name Santa Cruz after a saint, rather after the holy cross
- Mission Santa Cruz - California Missions
On October 12, 1812, Father Andrés Quintana, one of the Franciscan Fathers who at the time lived at the mission, was murdered by a group of mission neophytes Quintana was strangled to death during the night as revenge for its brutal use of metal-tipped whips as a means of punishment
- California Missions
Full name is Mission la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz California Historical Landmark No 342 DESIGN OF THE MISSION Church: Destroyed in the mid-1800's It was 112 feet long, 30 feet wide, 25 feet high, on a three-foot stone foundation; made of adobe with a stone façade (front)
- Mission Santa Cruz | Downtown Santa Cruz, CA
Mission Santa Cruz was a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in present-day Santa Cruz, California
- Californias-Missions. org: Mission Santa Cruz
Mission Santa Cruz was founded on August 28, 1791 by Father Lasuen Several members of the local Ohlone tribe attended the ceremony Another date, September 25, 1791 is also found in historical references, but Father Lasuen wasn’t able to attend the September dedication
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