San fernando for cmsa 3.2
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Welcome to the presentation of Mission San Fernando de Velicatá
Founded May 14, 1769 byFranciscan President Junípero Serra
The First Franciscan and the 18th
California mission founded since the first at Loreto in 1697…
500 miles south on El Camino Real
Baja California is a land of missions! The Jesuits founded 17, the Franciscans founded 1, and the Dominicans founded 9… 27 in total. Only in central Baja California are missions from the three Orders found within 100 miles of each other: Santa María, San Fernando, El Rosario.
San Juan de Dios
San Fernando de Velicatá
Santa María
Calamajué
El Rosario
The last Jesuit, the first Franciscan, and the first Dominican California missions, plus the visita, San Juan de Dios.
Velicatá was discovered on March 5, 1766 by the Jesuit missionary Padre Wenceslao Linck while exploring for new mission locations. The Jesuits hoped to expand the California missions around the Gulf of California to the Sonora missions. Velicatá was too far from San Borja, so Calamajué was
established first.
Dates in March 1766
1981
In just 6 years, major wall loss!
1987
In the six years from 1975 to 1981, huge loss. The next six years to 1987 very little change.
Photos by Dr.Hans Bertsch
Petroglyphs west of mission Photographs by David Kier in 2005
Native Indians at Velicatá for many years before the Spanish arrived
San Fernando photographed by David Kier in 2014 from helicopter for ‘Trail of Missions’ TV special.
View looking east, Mex. Hwy. 1 in distance.
The Old Missions of Baja California are vanishing. Photographs taken over the years have preserved them. Take photographs to keep the history of ALL California missions alive! Contact me if you would like to see these slides on your own computer, thank you! David Kier co-author ‘The Old Missions…’facebook.com/oldmissionsEmail: [email protected]