The California padres and their missions . es Father Lasuen. However, their course was soonrun. Before the end of 1793 we find Rubi — clerical titlesseem quite too incongruous with these scapegraces — backlike a bad penny at his College in the City of Mexico, and 242 requesting to be sent to Tampico. Of Gili we take leave inthe following year in the capacity of chaplain on a vessel thatis bearing him, against his will, to the Philippines. In conclusion, another incident, but in quieter vein, of thehumors of the Padres. To a proclamation of Governor Borica,in 1794, requiring the priests to refr
The California padres and their missions . es Father Lasuen. However, their course was soonrun. Before the end of 1793 we find Rubi — clerical titlesseem quite too incongruous with these scapegraces — backlike a bad penny at his College in the City of Mexico, and 242 requesting to be sent to Tampico. Of Gili we take leave inthe following year in the capacity of chaplain on a vessel thatis bearing him, against his will, to the Philippines. In conclusion, another incident, but in quieter vein, of thehumors of the Padres. To a proclamation of Governor Borica,in 1794, requiring the priests to refrain from dealings withforeign vessels. Padre Diego Garcia replies from his Missionof Soledad, some forty miles away from tide-water, that Itwill give him pleasure to comply with the order if DivineProvidence should ever favor this inland Mission with aharbor. So it is good to note that the Padre, whom wejust now saw quarreling with his two unruly brethren, hasrecovered his good humor and is ready for a little joke. SAN MIGUEL ARCANGEL. •S n(i., •,•• V,- Mission San Miguel Arcangel and the Case ofTHE Gentile Guchapa ^T is quite conceivable that if I had no other home under^ heaven than a darkling adobe room in the moulderingconvento of a lonely Mission, and between my parochial callslived there by myself among my books and the ghosts of thepast, with an old housekeeper across the hall to cook my mealsand darn my stockings and show the church to the curiouscomers and goers and keep them from picnicking in the corri-dors and from scattering discarded lunch-boxes and chew-ing-gum wrappers about — under such circumstances, I say,it is entirely likely that I, too, would be crusty; that I, too,would put up such a sign at my wicket as the resident priesthas displayed at the wicket to the Mission of that Most Glori-ous Prince of the Heavenly MiKtia, St. Michael, notice is in plain English, for the Spanish-speaking visi-tors at San Miguel are doubtless good Ca
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