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Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, also known as Santa Clara Catholic Cemetery, was founded in 1777, alongside the mission by the same Franciscans. [20] In 1851, when Santa Clara College was founded, the cemetery near the mission was running out of space, so they moved the location a few minutes walk from the mission near the adobe home of Fernando ...
Mission Santa Clara de Asís: 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara Our Mother of Perpetual Help: 1298 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara St. Clare 725 Washington St, Santa Clara St. Cyprian 195 Leota Ave, Sunnyvale St. Justin 2655 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara St. Lawrence, the Martyr 1971 Saint Lawrence Dr, Santa Clara St. Leo the Great 88 Race St, San Jose St ...
The Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded along the banks of the Guadalupe River, with the first Mass held on January 12, 1777.In January 1779, the Guadalupe flooded the original site, destroying it, and a second site was blessed by Father Junipero Serra on November 11, 1779. [2]
The mission was rebuilt in 1928 and is now used as the chapel for the Santa Clara University. The parish also assumed control of the Saint Clare School located next door and founded in 1856. St. Clare's church celebrated its 200th anniversary on Sunday, April 17, 1977, with a 12:15 pm mass officiated by Archbishop Joseph McGucken and a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 January 2025. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic Church ...
The altar at Our Lady of Peace Church. Since 1976, Eucharistic adoration is in progress at Our Lady of Peace Church 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, unless the Holy Mass is being celebrated. Our Lady of Peace church was founded on June 24, 1961. Fr. Joseph G. Sullivan, the founding pastor, oversaw construction of the church, hall, and rectory.
Villa Maria was the country home of the Jesuit fathers of Santa Clara University, who purchased the 320-acre (130 ha) tract in 1873. Shortly thereafter, Brother Tom Cunningham cleared the land for orchards and vineyards and built a simple frame chapel of redwood, 18 by 25 feet (5x8 m), in the mission style, with buttresses and towers. [1]
Otto von Kotzebue visited Mission Santa Clara in 1824 and noted the miserable condition of the monjeríos. [5] The way in which monjeríos were constructed along with their upkeep by the missionaries led to poor conditions within the rooms themselves. Missionaries themselves often described the monjeríos as benign institutions. [5]