The Old Franciscan Missions Of California

George Wharton James

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Title: The Old Franciscan Missions Of California
Author: George Wharton James
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MISSION SAN LUIS REY, PARTLY RESTORED.
MISSION SAN LUIS REY.
Showing monastery recently built behind the old Mission arches.The
Old Franciscan Missions
of California
BY
GEORGE WHARTON JAMES
Author of "In and Around the Grand Canyon," "Heroes of California," "Through Ramona's Country," Etc.
With Illustrations from Photographs
1913
Dedication
To those good men and women, of all creeds and of no creed, whose lives
have shown forth the glories of beautiful, helpful, unselfish, sympathetic
humanity:
To those whose love and life are larger than all creeds and who discern the
manifestation of God in all men:
To those who are urging forward the day when profession will give place to
endeavor, and, in the real life of a genuine brotherhood of man, and true
recognition of the All-Fatherhood of God, all men, in spite of their diversities,
shall unite in their worship and thus form the real Catholic Church:
Especially to these, and to all who appreciate nobleness in others I lovingly
dedicate these pages, devoted to a recital of the life and work of godly and
unselfish men.Foreword
The story of the Old Missions of California is perennially new. The interest in
the ancient and dilapidated buildings and their history increases with each
year. To-day a thousand visit them where ten saw them twenty years ago, and
twenty years hence, hundreds of thousands will stand in their sacred
precincts, and unconsciously absorb beautiful and unselfish lessons of life as
they hear some part of their history recited. It is well that this is so. A materially
inclined nation needs to save every unselfish element in its history to prevent
its going to utter destruction. It is essential to our spiritual development that
we learn that
"Not on the vulgar mass
Called 'work,' must sentence pass,
Things done, that took the eye and had the price;
O'er which, from level stand,
The low world laid its hand,
Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice."
It is of incalculably greater benefit to the race that the Mission Fathers lived
and had their fling of divine audacity for the good of the helpless aborigines
than that any score one might name of the "successful captains of industry"
lived to make their unwieldy and topheavy piles of gold. With all their faults
and failures, all their ideas of theology and education,--which we, in our
assumed superiority, call crude and old-fashioned,--all their rude notions of
sociology, all their errors and mistakes, the work of the Franciscan Fathers
was glorified by unselfish aim, high motive and constant and persistent
endeavor to bring their heathen wards into a knowledge of saving grace. It
was a brave and heroic endeavor. It is easy enough to find fault, to criticize, to
carp, but it is not so easy to do. These men did! They had a glorious purpose
which they faithfully pursued. They aimed high and achieved nobly. The
following pages recite both their aims and their achievements, and neither
can be understood without a thrilling of the pulses, a quickening of the heart's
beats, and a stimulating of the soul's ambitions.
This volume pretends to nothing new in the way of historical research or
scholarship. It is merely an honest and simple attempt to meet a real and
popular demand for an unpretentious work that shall give the ordinary tourist
and reader enough of the history of the Missions to make a visit to them of
added interest, and to link their history with that of the other Missions founded
elsewhere in the country during the same or prior epochs of Mission activity.
If it leads others to a greater reverence for these outward and visible signs of
the many and beautiful graces that their lives developed in the hearts of the
Franciscan Fathers--their founders and builders--and gives the information
needed, its purpose will be more than fulfilled.In most of its pages it is a mere condensation of the author's In and Out of the
Old Missions of California, to which book the reader who desires further and
more detailed information is respectfully referred.
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, April, 1913.
Contents
I. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
II. THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE MISSIONS OF LOWER
CALIFORNIA (MEXICO) AND ALTA CALIFORNIA (UNITED
STATES)
III. THE MISSIONS FOUNDED BY PADRE JUNIPERO
SERRA
IV. THE MISSIONS FOUNDED BY PADRE FERMIN
FRANCISCO LASUEN
V. THE FOUNDING OF SANTA INÉS, SAN RAFAEL AND
SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO
VI. THE INDIANS AT THE COMING OF THE PADRES
VII. THE INDIANS UNDER THE PADRES
VIII. THE SECULARIZATION OF THE MISSIONS
IX. SAN DIEGO DE ALCALÁ
X. SAN CARLOS BORROMEO
XI. THE PRESIDIO CHURCH AT MONTEREY
XII. SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA
XIII. SAN GABRIEL, ARCÁNGEL
XIV. SAN LUIS OBISPO DE TOLOSA
XV. SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS
XVI. SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
XVII. SANTA CLARA DE ASIS
XVIII. SAN BUENAVENTURA
XIX. SANTA BARBARA
XX. LA PURÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN
XXI. SANTA CRUZ
XXII. LA SOLEDAD
XXIII. SAN JOSÉ DE GUADALUPE
XXIV. SAN JUAN BAUTISTAXXV. SAN MIGUEL, ARCÁNGEL
XXVI. SAN FERNANDO, REY DE ESPAGNA
XXVII. SAN Luis, REY DE FRANCIA
XXVIII. SANTA INÉS
XXIX. SAN RAFAEL, ARCÁNGEL
XXX. SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO
XXXI. THE MISSION CHAPELS OR ASISTENCIAS
XXXII. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MISSION
INDIANS
XXXIII. MISSION ARCHITECTURE
XXXIV. THE GLEN WOOD MISSION INN
XXXV. THE INTERIOR DECORATIONS OF THE MISSIONS
XXXVI. HOW TO REACH THE MISSIONS
List of Illustrations
MISSION SAN Luis KEY......Frontispiece
JUNIPERO SERRA
MAP OF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA
SERRA MEMORIAL CROSS, MONTEREY, CALIF
SERRA CROSS ON MT. RUBIDOUX, RIVERSIDE, CALIF
SERRA STATUE ERECTED BY MRS. LELAND
STANFORD, AT MONTEREY
STATUE TO JUNIPERO SERRA, THE GIFT OF JAMES D
PHELAN, IN GOLDEN GATE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE UNDER SERRA CROSS, MT.
RUBIDOUX
MEMORIAL TABLET AND GRAVES OF PADRES SERRA,
CRESPI AND LASUEN, IN MISSION SAN CARLOS
BORROMEO
MISSION SAN CARLOS AND BAY OF MONTEREY
JUNIPERO OAK, SAN CARLOS PRESIDIO MISSION
STATUE OF SAN LUIS REY, AT PALA MISSION CHAPEL
FACHADA OF THE RUINED MISSION OF SAN DIEGO
OLD MISSION OF SAN DIEGO AND SISTERS' SCHOOL
FOR INDIAN CHILDREN
MAIN ENTRANCE ARCH AT MISSION SAN DIEGO
THE TOWER AT MISSION SAN CARLOS BORROMEO
PRESIDIO CHURCH AND PRIEST'S RESIDENCE,
MONTEREY, CALIF
MISSION SAN CARLOS
MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA
PRESIDIO CHURCH, MONTEREY
RUINS OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA
DUTTON HOTEL, JOLONDUTTON HOTEL, JOLON
RUINED CORRIDORS AT SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA
INTERIOR OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA
REAR OF CHURCH, MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA
RUINS OF THE ARCHES, MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE
PADUA
MISSION SAN GABRIEL, ARCÁNGEL
MISSION SAN GABRIEL, ARCÁNGEL
SAN LUIS OBISPO BEFORE RESTORATION
RUINED MISSION OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
THE RESTORED MISSION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
FACHADA OF MISSION SAN FRANCISCO
RUINS OF MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
ARCHED CLOISTERS AND CORRIDORS AT SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO
CAMPANILE AND RUINS OF MISSION SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO
ENTRANCE TO SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO CHAPEL
INNER COURT AND RUINED ARCHES, MISSION SAN
JUAN CAPISTRANO
BELLS OF MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
ONE OF THE DOORS, SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
IN THE AMBULATORY AT SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
MISSION SANTA CLARA IN 1849
CHURCH OF SANTA CLARA ON THE SITE OF OLD
MISSION OF SANTA CLARA
SIDE ENTRANCE AT SAN BUENAVENTURA
FACHADA OF MISSION SAN BUENAVENTURA
STATUE OF SAN BUENAVENTURA
RAWHIDE FASTENING OF MISSION BELL, AND
WORMEATEN BEAM
MISSION SANTA BARBARA
MISSION SANTA BARBARA FROM THE HILLSIDE
INTERIOR OF MISSION SANTA BARBARA
DOOR INTO CEMETERY, SANTA BARBARA
MISSION BELL AT SANTA BARBARA
THE SACRISTY WALL, GARDEN AND TOWERS, MISSION
SANTA BARBARA
FACHADA OF MISSION LA PURÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN
RUINS OF MISSION LA PURÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN
MISSION SANTA CRUZ
RUINED WALLS OF MISSION LA SOLEDAD
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE WALLS OF MISSION LA
SOLEDAD
MISSION SAN JOSÉ, SOON AFTER THE DECREE OF
SECULARIZATION
FIGURE OF CHRIST, SAN JOSÉ ORPHANAGE
RUINED WALLS AND NEW BELL TOWER, MISSION SAN
JUAN BAUTISTA
FACHADA OF MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, FROM THE PLAZA
THE ARCHED CORRIDOR, MISSION SAN JUANBAUTISTA
DOORWAY, MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
STAIRWAY LEADING TO PULPIT, MISSION SAN JUAN
BAUTISTA
MISSION SAN MIGUEL ARCÁNGEL, FROM THE SOUTH