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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.
Name Image Boundaries Description Mission Historic District: Santa Clara St. (south), Ventura Ave. (west), Poli St. (north), Palm Street (east) The oldest section of downtown Ventura surrounding Mission San Buenaventura; the district includes more than ten historic landmarks.
The mission was named for St. Bonaventure, a 13th-century Franciscan saint and a Doctor of the Church. San Miguel Chapel was the first outpost and center of operations while the first Mission San Buenaventura was being constructed. The first mission burned in 1801 and a replacement building of brick and stone was completed in 1809.
Mission San Buenaventura is a Spanish mission founded in 1782 by the Franciscan order. In October 1542, the expedition led by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo anchored in an inlet near Point Mugu; its members were the first Europeans to arrive in the area that would become Ventura County. [28] Active occupation of California by Spain began in 1769.
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
The Camino Real turned north at the Mission San Buenaventura following the course of the Ventura River. [5] The Santa Gertrudis site was located 5.1 miles north of the mouth of the Ventura River and 220 feet from the river's east bank. [4] According to one account, it was situated near a sycamore tree used in rituals by the Chumash people.
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]
In June 2020, as the national call for the removal of certain statues intensified, the mayor of Ventura, the pastor of Mission San Buenaventura and Julie Tumamait-Stenslie, the tribal chair of the Barbareño/Venureño Band of Mission Indians, issued a joint statement agreeing to take down the statue and have it "moved to a more appropriate non ...