The California padres and their missions . ssions especial charm for visitors to-day. Father St. John OSullivan, the cultured parish priest atpresent resident in the Mission, has written an excellent hand- ^ This tradition seems to conflict with an entry in the journal of Vancouver,who sailed down the California coast in 1793, stopping at several of the When abreast of San Juan Capistrano, he made this note: Coastingabout two miles from shore we suddenly noticed a Spanish establishmenterected close to the waterside in a small sandy cove. . This Mission is verypleasantly situated in
The California padres and their missions . ssions especial charm for visitors to-day. Father St. John OSullivan, the cultured parish priest atpresent resident in the Mission, has written an excellent hand- ^ This tradition seems to conflict with an entry in the journal of Vancouver,who sailed down the California coast in 1793, stopping at several of the When abreast of San Juan Capistrano, he made this note: Coastingabout two miles from shore we suddenly noticed a Spanish establishmenterected close to the waterside in a small sandy cove. . This Mission is verypleasantly situated in a grove of trees, having the ocean in front, and beingbounded on its other sides by rugged, dreary mountains. This is very explicit,and seems to be the neighborhood of the old embarcadero, since immortalizedby Dana, where ships, stopping for supplies or to trade with the Mission, castanchor. Palou, in his Life of Serra (chap. XLin), gives the situation as half aleague (ij miles) from the bay of San Juan Capistrano, beside a stream. 66. ONE OF THE BELLS, MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO book of the place which should be obtained by every it he states that the stone used in building came fromMision Vieja, the large stones being conveyed in carretas orbull carts, and the smaller ones carried by the Indian neo-phytes. Each one walked bearing a stone from the quarryin the hands or upon the head — the children with small ones,the grown-ups with larger ones, all doing their part accordingto their strength; so that during the work, the place resembleda great anthill with the busy workers going and coming —those passing to the east empty-handed, and those coming tothe west bearing their burdens. While the manual labor wasall done by Indians under the superintendence of the Fathers,there was a Mexican master mason, sent up from Culiacan,who had charge of the stone-cutting. The church was some-thing over nine years a-building. It was cruciform in out-line, and, when completed, w
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