Mission Espada BW
by Joan Carroll
Title
Mission Espada BW
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
Mission Espada is the southernmost of the Spanish Missions near San Antonio. Along with Mission San Juan, it seems remote and sun-baked in the heat of a Texas summer. While we can jump in our air-conditioned cars after visiting here, you have to marvel about the tenacity of the people who called this part of the country home in past centuries. Now commonly called just Mission Espada, it was called Mission San Francisco de la Espada when it was moved to the San Antonio area in 1731. It is one of four missions that comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site encompassing all the missions in San Antonio including the Alamo. Mission San Francisco de la Espada remains a very active parish. The convento was rehabilitated by the archdiocese in modern times and now serves as workshops and temporary quarters for the Franciscan priests and brothers who returned in the 1930s to still serve their local community as they originally had when the mission was founded.
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August 3rd, 2015
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