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Alpine tundra – The San Francisco Peaks are the home of the only alpine tundra environment in Arizona, occupying 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) above 10,600 feet (3,200 m). [13] [14] Only a few small herbaceous plants have established themselves in the tundra.
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [ b] was an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar [ 7] and itinerant preacher.
The Mission San Francisco de Asís ( Spanish: Misión San Francisco de Asís ), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California. Operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the complex was founded in the 18th century by Spanish Catholic missionaries. The mission contains two historic buildings:
July 23, 1973. The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi ( Spanish: Catedral basílica de San Francisco de Asís ), commonly known as Saint Francis Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe . The cathedral was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy ...
San Francisco de Asís is located about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Taos, New Mexico, at the center of the main plaza in the unincorporated community of Ranchos de Taos on the south side of New Mexico State Road 68. It is a large adobe structure, about 120 feet (37 m) in length, with a cruciform plan. An adobe wall extends from the back of the ...
The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi ( Italian: Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. It is a papal minor basilica and one of ...
The Mission Dolores mural is an 18th-century work of art in the Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco. In 1791, the Ohlone people, Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay and laborers for the church, painted the mural on the focal wall of the sanctuary. Five years later, an altarpiece known as a ...
The St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral [1] ( Spanish: Catedral de San Francisco de Asís) Also Sincelejo Cathedral [2] Is the name given to a cathedral church belonging to the Catholic Church and consecrated to St. Francis of Assisi. It is located in Santander Square in the city of Sincelejo ( Colombia ), [3] capital of the Department of Sucre .