Timeline for Mission Carmel - SMES 4th Grade Project

Mission Carmel

4th Grade 2010

Vital Statistics

Mission name is San Carlos Borromeo De Carmelo

Nickname is Carmel

Founded in 1700 by St. Dominic and Francis

 It's about 100 miles to San Francisco and 2500 feet from the bay.

Named after....

Mission was named after Charles Borremeo. He was a

16th century Cardinal and the archbishop of Milan, Italy.

Designs of the mission

The roof and walls were made of yellow sand

stone. The sandstone is made with abalone shells. It's formed in a quadrangle with a fountain in the middle surrounded by beautiful gardens and olive trees. The bell tower holds 8 bells with a staircase. There were hardly any acres.

Mission Music

Music has been a part of a life time. There were plenty of songs for everybody to sing, especially children. While they were singing, they use drums, rattles, and flutes which were made from wood. Everyone was attracted to music and enjoyed it. Soon they formed a choir for males and the choir were invited to many of festivals.

The Mission Today

Today the mission everything is all fixed up. The church was restored with pastel colors.

In the past they taught how to trade, hunt, learn how to cook, and how to talk.

They had medicine men to heel people not a pharmacy.

Timeline for Mission Carmel

Father Serra dedicated mission in 1770

Church was built in 1771

Father Serra dies in 1784

Church gets

designs in 1791

New church is built in

1979

People attack

the mission in 1818

Mission secularized

and the building

Mission was abandoned

in 1882

Mission returned

to Catholic Church in

1859

Father Caesarian returned the church

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