The penance of Magdalena : and other tales of the California missions . Cornell UniversityLibrary The original of tliis book is intine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions inthe United States on the use of the text. SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. The Penance of Magdalena fiS^OWLY, very slowly, the greatest and most beautiful of^^ the Missions of Alta California had risen among theswelling lomas of the valley of the San Juan. Brick by brickand stone by stone the simple Indian laborers, under thetutelage of the Fathers, had reared a
The penance of Magdalena : and other tales of the California missions . Cornell UniversityLibrary The original of tliis book is intine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions inthe United States on the use of the text. SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. The Penance of Magdalena fiS^OWLY, very slowly, the greatest and most beautiful of^^ the Missions of Alta California had risen among theswelling lomas of the valley of the San Juan. Brick by brickand stone by stone the simple Indian laborers, under thetutelage of the Fathers, had reared a structure which, in itsway and place, might not unfitly be compared with thosegreat cathedrals of Europe in which we see, as in a parable,how inward love and faith work out in material beauty. Hugetimbers of pine and sycamore, hewn on Palomar, the Moun-tain of Doves, many miles away, had been hauled by oxenover trackless hill and vaUey, to form the Joists and raftersthat one sees to-day, after the lapse of more than a century,firm and serviceable, fastened with wooden spikes and stoutrawhide lashings. In all these labors Teofilo had taken a principal part. Asa child he had been christened with the name of Lucas, andhad carried it through boyhood. But when about fourteenyears of age, he had been trans
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