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The missions facilitated the expansion of the Spanish empire through the religious conversion of the indigenous peoples occupying those areas. While the Spanish Crown dominated the political, economic, and social realms of the Americas and people indigenous to the region, the Catholic Church dominated the religious and spiritual realm.
The mission project was a popular teaching tool used in California to teach school children about the Spanish missions, but became controversial. [124] [125] Its popularity began decreasing in the mid-2010s as educators questioned whether the assignment effectively teaches students about the Spanish missions' impact on indigenous Californians.
The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, Jesuits, Augustinians, ...
The Spanish colonial government coordinated with the Roman Catholic Church to establish churches throughout their New World possessions. Jesuit missions in North America Spanish missions in Mexico
The Spanish Governor's Palace (105 Plaza de Armas), completed in 1749, is a low-lying masonry and stucco structure that resembles the similar official residence in Santa Fe, N.M.
Today a growing number of people, calling themselves California Mission Walkers, hike the mission trail route, usually in segments between the missions. [5] Walking the trail is a way to connect with the history of the missions. For some it represents a spiritual pilgrimage, inspired by Jesuit priest Richard Roos' 1985 book, Christwalk. [6]
During the Spanish colonization of the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire established many hundreds of Catholic missions throughout their colonies in the Americas. These missions were founded and staffed by numerous Catholic religious orders of regular clergy. The following is a list of these missionaries to New Spain.
Spanish missions in the colonial United States — established in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México), with sites/structures now in the present day southern and western United States. v t