About Mission Santa Cruz - SMES 4th Grade Project

MisSion Santa Cruz

About Mission Santa Cruz

? Established: August 28, 1791 ? By: Father Fermin Lasuen, Franciscan

missionary and successor to Junipero Serra ? Order: 12th of 21 missions ? Location: 75 miles north of San Francisco on the ocean. ? Named: For the Sacred Cross of Christianity. "Santa Cruz is Spanish for "Sacred Cross."

Santa Cruz Mission is here!

75 miles south of San Francisco, on the ocean, near the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, with a View of Monterey Bay. ->

Timeline for Mission Santa Cruz

1793 moved to higher ground

1791 ? site chosen

1796-pueblo of Branciforte founded near

mission

1794-church completed

1811-church roof

replaced by tile

1795- quadrangle of building completed

1818 ? Pirate attack

1825 ? Earthquake damaged

church

1834 - secularized

1830 ? buttresse

d the walls

1840 ? Bell tower

collapsed, roof tiles

stolen

1857 ? Earthquake

church collapsed

1859 ? Mission returned to Catholic Church

1858 Frame church built

Meaning of the mission

? Santa Cruz means "Sacred Cross" in Spanish

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