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Mission Santa Barbara (Spanish: Misión de Santa Bárbara) is a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California, United States.Often referred to as the 'Queen of the Missions', it was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission of what would later become 21 missions in Alta California.
The Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library was founded in 1967 as an independent, non-profit educational and research institution. [1] The collection of mission documents in the archive-library remain in situ from the founding of the mission system. [2] The collections include named sections, the Junipero Serra Collection (1713-1947), the ...
v. t. e. The history of Santa Barbara, California, begins approximately 13,000 years ago with the arrival of the first Native Americans. The Spanish came in the 18th century to occupy and Christianize the area, which became part of Mexico following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, the expanding United States acquired the town along ...
Monica I. Orozco (born in Santa Barbara, California) is a historian and archivist. She is the Director of the Santa Barbara Mission-Archive Library as well as Executive Director of Mission Santa Barbara. [1] She earned her doctorate in History at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999, completing her dissertation entitled "Protestant ...
t. e. The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, between 1683 and 1834. The missionary goal was to spread the Christian doctrine among the Indigenous peoples living on the Baja California peninsula.
Engelhardt's work is today considered to be the standard authority regarding California mission history. He also wrote a number of articles for the Catholic Encyclopedia. His many works include: The Franciscans in California (1897) The Franciscans in Arizona (1899) The Missions and Missionaries of California (1908–1915)
An architectural line drawing of the general outlay of the mission is pictured, showing major roads and the location of twenty-one features of the mission. Picture file card lists the map as coming from the book "The Early Days of Santa Barbara" by Walter A. Hawley, published in 1920.;
Francisca Benicia Carrillo. Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 – 18 January 1890) was a Californio general, statesman, and public figure. He was born a subject of Spain, performed his military duties as an officer of the Republic of Mexico, and shaped the transition of Alta California from a territory of Mexico to the U.S. state of ...