All the western states and territories . -ing no further missionary work to perform, San Antonio de Valero became an ordinary * In the course of that year, says the ancient record, came twelve families of pure Spanish blood, fromthe Oiiriary Islands, who laid mit and founded the city of San Antonio. Among the settlers was a Garcia,a Flores, a Navarro and a , names prominent in the revolutionary history of Texas, whileit was claimed as a Spanish colony. One year after their arrival the colonists, assisted by the Franciscanfathers and their crowds of converts, erected t
All the western states and territories . -ing no further missionary work to perform, San Antonio de Valero became an ordinary * In the course of that year, says the ancient record, came twelve families of pure Spanish blood, fromthe Oiiriary Islands, who laid mit and founded the city of San Antonio. Among the settlers was a Garcia,a Flores, a Navarro and a , names prominent in the revolutionary history of Texas, whileit was claimed as a Spanish colony. One year after their arrival the colonists, assisted by the Franciscanfathers and their crowds of converts, erected the quaint church which now, defaced and batteredby tlie storms of one hundred and twenty-seven years, stands in the main plaza of the city, a monumentof the almost buried past. Its evening bells echo sweetly their chimes as in the days of long ago, andcrowds of worshipers still kii>>el upon the old stone floor, and bow before the venerable picture of th«Crucifi.\ion which hangs, all dim and discolored, above the altar. 666
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