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The San Antonio Missions are a World Heritage Site located in and near San Antonio, Texas, United States. The World Heritage Site consists of five mission sites, a historic ranch, and related properties. These outposts were established in the early 1700s by Catholic religious orders to spread Christianity among the local natives.
San Antonio de Areco, a city in Buenos Aires Province; Cape San Antonio, Argentina, a cape on the eastern coast of Buenos Aires Province; San Antonio de los Cobres, a town in Salta Province; San Antonio, Fray Mamerto Esquiú, a municipality in Catamarca Province; San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga, a municipality and village in La Rioja ...
Pan de ánimas is also known as pan bendecido ('blessed bread') or pan de caridad ('charity bread'). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The tradition of the mortuary breads in Spain is collected by the anthropologist Luis de Hoyos Sainz [ es ] in the publication Folklore español del culto a los muertos (1945), although he notes that these traditions have gradually ...
Fray Antonio de Olivares also built the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, on the west side of the San Antonio River, approximately 1 mile from the mission. [4] It was designed to protect the system of missions and civilian settlements in central Texas and to ensure Spanish claims in the region against possible encroachment from other European powers.
San Antonio del Mar was founded in 1966 by a group of American investors, who wanted a beach resort for Tourists and Expatriates. [3]The community was originally named San Antonio de Padua, named after the original Saint of The Alamo mission, which was close to where San Antonio was established, but they later changed it in 1973 to San Antonio del Mar to reflect the proximity to the ocean.
The Royal Chapel of St. Anthony of La Florida (Spanish: Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida) is a Neoclassical chapel in central Madrid. The chapel is best known for its ceiling and dome frescoes by Francisco Goya. It is also his final burial place.
La Prensa was founded on February 13, 1913, in San Antonio as a weekly newspaper by Ignacio Eugenio Lozano, Sr. (1886–1953), a prominent exile of Mexico, native of Nuevo Leon, and supporter of Porfirio Diaz leading up to, and throughout the Mexican Revolution. [5]
The Iglesia Parroquial de San Antonio de Padua (English: Parish Church of Saint Anthony of Padua) is a historic, Roman Catholic parish church in Guayama, Puerto Rico.The parish was erected in 1736 and the first church building completed no later than 1775.