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Mission San Xavier del Bac was established in 1692 by Eusebio Francisco Kino, who founded a chain of Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert. [6] A Jesuit of Italian descent, Kino often visited and preached in the area, then the Pimería Alta colonial territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain . [ 1 ]
Mission San Xavier del Bac: 32.10723, -111.00797: 1692 () Jesuits: 1692–1770, 1783–1837, 1859–present. The extant mission church was completed in 1797. [4] [5] Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas: 31.45252, -110.95945: 1755 () Jesuits: It was founded as a visita of Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi and later became a mission. Abandoned ...
San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia; San Xavier, Arizona, a town; San Xavier Indian Reservation, near Tucson, Arizona, United States Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission on San Xavier Indian Reservation; San Xavier talus snail or Sonorella eremita, a species of air-breathing land snail
Nentvig was active at such noted sites as San Xavier del Bac, and through his writings made known what became of a number of the area missions, asistencias (sub-missions or contributing chapels), and visitas (visiting chapels or country chapels) founded by missionary Eusebio Kino. Nentvig died at Ixtlán on September 11, 1768.
San José Mission, Pisenemo: Supervised by San Solano Missions Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Mission, Sells: Supervised by San Solano Missions Santa Catalina 14380 N. Oracle Rd, Tucson [53] Santa Cruz: 1220 S. 6th Ave, Tucson Current church dedicated in 1916, became a parish in 1919 [54] San Xavier del Bac Mission: 1950 W. San Xavier Rd, Tucson
The next year, Kion built the Mission San Xavier del Bac on the present-day San Xavier Indian Reservation. [3] The O'odham rebellion of 1751 forced the Mission San José de Tumacácori to move to its current location on the Santa Cruz River. [4] During an Apache raid in 1771, the Mission San Xavier del Bac was destroyed. It was rebuilt by 1797 ...
Mission San Xavier del Bac: San Xavier Indian Reservation near Tucson, Arizona: 1783-1797 Church Rebuilt in 1783 near site of an earlier razed church built in 1692 [5] Likely the oldest Spanish colonial/European built structure in Arizona. Cordova House: Tucson, Arizona: ca. 1848 Residence Oldest house in Tucson; now part of Tucson Museum of ...
In 1768, where Father Kino had established the visita of Mission San Xavier del Bac. At San Cosmé del Tucson in 1692, the visita was expanded, fortified and renamed San Cosme y Damián de Tucsón. On August 20, 1775, Presidio San Augustin del Tucson was established to protect the missions and the region of the Santa Cruz River valley generally ...