Mission San Xavier Del Bac

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Mission San Xavier Del Bac

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Bob and Nadine Johnston

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Photograph - Fine Art - Digital An Acrylic Paintings... No Watermark Will Ever Be On Finished Art Or Prints And Cards...

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Interior of Mission San Xavier del Bac Digital Painting by Bob Johnston. Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono Oodham San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was named in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino for a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order), Francis Xavier. The mission is also known as the place where the water appears, as there were once natural springs in the area. The Santa Cruz River, which now runs only part of the year, is also nearby. The mission is situated in the center of a centuries-old Indian settlement of the Tohono Oodham located along the banks of the Santa Cruz River.

The mission is a pilgrimage site with thousands of pilgrims who visit the church each year, many of them walking or riding on horseback cabalgatas.

The mission was founded in 1692 by the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, founder of the Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert chain, who often visited and preached in the area. The original mission church, located about two miles away, was vulnerable to Apache attacks which finally destroyed it in about 1770. Charles III of Spain banned all Jesuits from Spanish lands in the Americas in 1767 because of his distrust of the Jesuits. From this time on, San Xavier mission was led by the more pliable and reliable Franciscans. The present building was constructed under the direction of Franciscan fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz mainly with native labor working from 1783 1797 with a loan of 7,000 pesos and serves the Catholics of the San Xavier District of the Tohono Oodham Nation. Unlike the other Spanish missions in Arizona, San Xavier is still actively served by Franciscans, and still serves the Native community by which it was built. The San Xavier church and its Indian converts were protected somewhat from Apache raids by the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson, established in 1775 roughly 7 miles downstream.

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