Mission San Juan Capistrano #2

by Joan Carroll

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Mission San Juan Capistrano #2

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Art

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No, not the San Juan Capistrano where the swallows return, the one in Texas, near San Antonio! As you walk onto the grounds of the mission in the summer, it is hot and bright and quiet. This mission never made as much progress as the others near San Antonio and you can feel why..you feel like the sun is just about to bake the life out of you! I spent a wonderful half hour or so talking with the Park Ranger there (Mission San Juan has been maintained by the National Park Service as a part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park since the 1980s.) who was very knowledgeable about mission history. Mission San Juan Capistrano moved from East Texas to its present site about 12 miles from the Alamo in 1731. Twelve miles in 1731 was a pretty 'fur piece' and it never flourished like the missions closer to San Antonio. The Mission was secularized on July 14, 1794, after which time it was attended by the resident priest at Mission San Francisco de la Espada, until about 1813; it was then attended by the one remaining missionary at the nearby Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo until 1824. Mission San Juan was largely neglected until 1840, when religious services were once again conducted, this time by diocesan priests. Members of the Claretian and Redemptorist Orders also held mass in the church until 1967, when the Franciscans returned to Mission San Juan. Like the other missions around San Antonio (except for the Alamo), this is today an active parish. It is also part of the UNESCO World Heritage site that includes all the San Antonio Spanish Missions.

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August 5th, 2015

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