Mission San Juan Easter Cross is a photograph by David and Carol Kelly which was uploaded on December 27th, 2012.
Mission San Juan Easter Cross
We found this Cross draped for Easter at the Spanish Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Antonio, Texas.... more
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Mission San Juan Easter Cross
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David and Carol Kelly
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We found this Cross draped for Easter at the Spanish Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Antonio, Texas.
San Juan Capistrano Mission, formerly the East Texas mission of San José de los Nazonis, was renamed in 1731, when it was moved to the site of present San Antonio twelve miles from the Alamo. San Juan Capistrano did not make as much progress as did the other San Antonio missions because of its exposure to frequent Indian attacks and the fact that lands allotted to the mission were not sufficient for its horses and cattle and the raising of the required crops.
In the early 1700s in South Texas Apache raided from the north, deadly diseases spread from Mexico, and drought lingered. Survival lay in the Spanish missions. By entering a mission, the native inhabitants foreswore their traditional life to become Spanish, accepting a new religion and pledging fealty to a distant and unseen king.
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