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San Juan Bautista (Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist") is a city in San Benito County, in the U.S. state of California. The population was 2,089 as of the 2020 census . [ 6 ] San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Fermín de Lasuén , with the establishment of Mission San Juan Bautista .
The Wattah Wattah Festival, also known as the Basaan Festival (lit. ' dousing of water '), is the feast of John the Baptist, the patron saint of San Juan, Metro Manila, and many other communities across the Philippines. It is held every June 24. [1]
San Juan de la Vega is a town in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. The town has been inhabited since at least the 16th Century. It has grown considerably in the past few years, and currently has two Catholic churches.
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Día de San Juan Bautista. Fiestas de San Juan. Since John the Baptist is the patron saint of the Island and the namesake of the capital city , his day is widely celebrated by big parties on the beaches on the Eve of St. John's Day (June 23). One tradition is to walk backward into the ocean and fall in 12 times at midnight on the beginning of ...
José Antonio Castro's father José Tiburcio Castro was a soldier, member of the Diputación (the legislature of Alta California), [4] administrator of Mission San Juan Bautista after it was secularized, and grantee of Rancho Sausal. The elder Castro used his position to obtain land grants for relatives and friends.
Mission San Juan Bautista in 1934. Mission San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797, as the 15th Spanish mission in what is now California. It was well sited for its intended purpose, the conversion of area Native Americans to Roman Catholicism, and was highly successful. The present mission church, still an active Catholic parish, was built in ...
El Teatro Campesino (Spanish for "The Farmworker's Theater") is a Chicano theatre company in California.Performing in both English and Spanish, El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers and the Chicano Movement with the "full support of César Chávez."