The California padres and their missions . . tss^^^ •-^ The Mission of Madre Santa Clara de Asis andHER Padre Santo t |ou may, if you choose, have the railway put you off atSanta Clara Station within sight of the Mission, or, ifyou are in San Jose, you may ride to the Mission gates byelectric car on tracks that follow, for part of the way, thebeautiful old Alameda, for which every traveler, for nearly acentury, has had words of praise. In either case, however,you will find at Santa Clara very Httle to suggest that famousedifice at which Padre Joseph Murguia, its architect andbuilder, labored w
The California padres and their missions . . tss^^^ •-^ The Mission of Madre Santa Clara de Asis andHER Padre Santo t |ou may, if you choose, have the railway put you off atSanta Clara Station within sight of the Mission, or, ifyou are in San Jose, you may ride to the Mission gates byelectric car on tracks that follow, for part of the way, thebeautiful old Alameda, for which every traveler, for nearly acentury, has had words of praise. In either case, however,you will find at Santa Clara very Httle to suggest that famousedifice at which Padre Joseph Murguia, its architect andbuilder, labored with his own hands and his neophytes: layingadobes, hewing timbers, and what-not, till the finished result,in 1784, was declared by Father Junipero the finest of all theMission churches up to that time. Fated Padre Joseph!Though he lived to complete his dear church, it was only tobe buried in it. Four days before its dedication, he died. For the casual visitor to-day, only a memorial cross, boxingwithin it the original, remains to witnes
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