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Mission San Juan Bautista is a Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California.Founded on June 24, 1797, by Fermín de Lasuén of the Franciscan order, the mission was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions established in present-day California.
San Juan Bautista (Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist") is a city in San Benito County, in the U.S. state of California. The population was 2,089 as of the 2020 census . [ 6 ] San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Fermín de Lasuén , with the establishment of Mission San Juan Bautista .
Two Franciscan missions, Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción and Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer, were constructed within the present-day borders of California but were administered as part of the Spanish missions of Pimería Alta. As such, they are not considered a part of the 21 missions of Alta California.
Thus San Juan Bautista was a popular stopping stop on the El Camino Real road to Monterey. Monterey was the Capitol of California from 1776 to 1849. [2] In 1861, stagecoach service came to San Juan, and the Plaza Stables were built to house and care for the many stagecoach horses. The Plaza Hotel became popular and well known in this time.
Other missions bearing the name San Juan Bautista include the Mission San Juan Bautista in California and the Misión San Juan Bautista in Coahuila. Misión San Juan Bautista Malibat, also known as the Misión San Juan Bautista de Ligüí, was founded by the Jesuit missionary Pedro de Ugarte in November 1705, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Loreto near the Gulf of California coast of what ...
Mission San Juan Bautista in 1934. Mission San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797, as the 15th Spanish mission in what is now California. It was well sited for its intended purpose, the conversion of area Native Americans to Roman Catholicism, and was highly successful. The present mission church, still an active Catholic parish, was built in ...
Mission San Francisco Solano [1] [2] Mission San Juan Bautista [3] Mission Dulce Nombre de Jesus de Peyotes in Villa Union; Mission San Andrés de Nava; Mission San Buenaventura de la Consolación; Mission Nuestra Señora de Dolores de la Punta in Lampazos; Mission San Bernardino de la Candela; Mission San Buenaventura in Cuatrocienegas
The first was Mission San Juan Bautista. Originally founded in 1699 at a site 25 miles north of Lampazos in Nuevo León on the Sabinas River, it was relocated to Guerrero on January 1, 1700. The second was Mission San Francisco Solano, founded 1700, and the third, Mission San Bernardo, was founded in spring 1702. The ruins of these missions ...