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Mission San Buenaventura (Spanish: Misión San Buenaventura, Ventureño: mitsqanaqan̓ [9]), formally known as the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura, is a Catholic parish and basilica in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The parish church in the city of Ventura, California, United States, is a Spanish mission founded by the Order of Friars Minor.
The San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct was a seven-mile long, stone and mortar aqueduct built in the late 18th and/or early 19th century to transport water from the Ventura River to the Mission San Buenaventura in Ventura, California. Accounts vary greatly as to when the aqueduct was built. [4]
The Mission San Buenaventura was founded by Junípero Serra on March 30, 1782. According to E. M. Sheridan's "History of Cross On Hill", written in 1928, the erection of a cross at a highly visible point was "the first act of the Mission Fathers", seeking to establish a guide-post to those coming to the Mission by land or sea. [1]
Junípero Serra was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded nine Spanish missions in California. In 1782, Serra founded Mission San Buenaventura, his ninth and final mission, on a site that became downtown Ventura.
During four periods of crisis at the Mission San Buenaventura, the Mission padres, according to some accounts, temporarily relocated to the Santa Gertrudis Asistencia. The first possible relocation to Santa Gertrudis, and the one having the least historical support, followed a fire in the 1790s that destroyed the first Mission church.
San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct: East end of Vince and Lewis Streets: 8/2/82: Seven-mile long aqueduct built starting in 1792 to supply water to the Mission San Buenaventura and local farms; the aqueduct began at the convergence point of San Antonio Creek and the Ventura River.
Ventura, California, the official name of which is San Buenaventura Mission San Buenaventura, in Ventura; San Buenaventura de Potano, a 17th-century Spanish mission in Florida; San Buenaventura de Guadalquini, a 17th-century Spanish mission in Georgia; San Buenaventura River (legend), a legendary river in the western United States
Kitsepawit, more commonly known as Fernando Librado [A] (c. August 20, 1839 – June 19, 1915), was a Chumash elder, master tomol builder, craft specialist, and storyteller. . He was born at Mission San Buenaventura in 1839 as the son of two Chumash parents from the island of Lim