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008 - Chapter 8 · Famous Missions of California

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight of the Famous Missions of California. This is
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Phil Schampf The Famous Missions of California by
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  Speaker 1: William Henry Hudson, Chapter eight. After Jutapero's death, the supervision
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  Speaker 1: of the missions devolved for a time upon Palou, under
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  Speaker 1: whose management, owing to difficulties with the civil powers, no
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  Speaker 1: new foundations were undertaken, though satisfactory progress was made in
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  Speaker 1: those already existing. In seventeen eighty six, Palou was appointed
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  Speaker 1: head of the College of San Fernando, and his place
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  Speaker 1: as Mission president was filled by Father Fermen Francisco A
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  Speaker 1: la Suan, by whom the Mission of Santa Barbara was
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  Speaker 1: dedicated on the festival day of that Virgin martyr before
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  Speaker 1: the close of the year. Just twelve months later, the
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  Speaker 1: Third Channel Settlement was started with the performance of the
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  Speaker 1: usual rites on the spot fixed for the mission of
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  Speaker 1: La Parisma Concepcion at the western extremity of the Bay,
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  Speaker 1: though some months passed before real work there was begun.
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  Speaker 1: Thus the proposed scheme elaborated before Houdipero's death, for the
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  Speaker 1: occupation of that portion of the coast was at length
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  Speaker 1: successfully carried out. Hardly had this been accomplished before the
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  Speaker 1: Viceroy and Governor, having resolved upon a further extension of
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  Speaker 1: the mission system, sent orders to Father La Suenne to
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  Speaker 1: proceed with two fresh settlements, one of which was to
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  Speaker 1: be dedicated to the Holy Cross, the other to our
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  Speaker 1: Lady of Solitude. Time was, as usual consumed in making
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  Speaker 1: the necessary preparations, and the two missions were finally founded
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  Speaker 1: within a few weeks of each other, on the twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighth of August and the ninth of October seventeen ninety one, respectively.
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  Speaker 1: The site selected for the Mission of Santa Cruz was
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood already known by that name, near the
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  Speaker 1: San Lorenzo River, that of Nuestra Senora de Soledad, on
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  Speaker 1: the west side of the Salinas River, in the vicinity
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  Speaker 1: of the present town of Soledad, and about thirty miles
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  Speaker 1: from Monterey. A glance at the map of California will
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  Speaker 1: help us to understand the policy which had dictated the
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  Speaker 1: creation of the four missions founded since Hunipero's death. The
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  Speaker 1: enormous stretch of country between San Francisco and San Diego,
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  Speaker 1: the northern and southern extremes of evangelical enterprise, was as
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  Speaker 1: yet quite insufficiently occupied, and these new settlements had been
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  Speaker 1: started with the object of, to some extent, filling up
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  Speaker 1: the vast vacant spaces still left among those already existing.
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  Speaker 1: For the efficient performance of missionary work, something more was
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  Speaker 1: needed than a number of separate establishments, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: well managed and successful these in themselves might be. Systematic
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  Speaker 1: organization was essential for this. It was requisite that the
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  Speaker 1: various missions should be brought by proximity into vital realms
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  Speaker 1: reations with one another, that communication might be kept up,
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  Speaker 1: companionship enjoyed, and in the case of need, advice given,
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  Speaker 1: and assistance rendered. The foundations of Santa Barbara, Glas Parissima,
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  Speaker 1: Santa Cruz and Soledad had done something, as will be
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  Speaker 1: seen towards the ultimate drawing together of the scattered outposts
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  Speaker 1: of church and civilization. But with them a beginning had
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  Speaker 1: only been made further developments of the same general plan
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  Speaker 1: which aimed, it will be understood not alone at the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual conquest, but also at the proper control of the
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  Speaker 1: new Kingdom were now taken under consideration, and as a result,
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  Speaker 1: five fresh missions were presently resolved upon. One of these
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  Speaker 1: was to be situated between San Francisco and Santa Clara,
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  Speaker 1: the second between Santa Clara and Monterey, the third between
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio and San Luis Obispo, the fourth between San
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  Speaker 1: Buenaventura and San Gabriel, and the fifth between San Juanca
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  Speaker 1: Pastrano and San Diego. The importance of these proposed settlements
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  Speaker 1: as connecting links will be at once apparent if we
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  Speaker 1: observed that, by reason of their carefully chosen locations, they served,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, to put the older missions into actual touch.
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  Speaker 1: When at length the preliminary arrangements had been made, no
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  Speaker 1: time was wasted in the carrying out of the program,
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  Speaker 1: and in a little over a year all five missions
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  Speaker 1: were in operation. The Mission San Jose, a rather tardy
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  Speaker 1: recognition to the patron saint of the whole undertaking, was
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  Speaker 1: founded on the eleventh June seventeen ninety seven, San Juan
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  Speaker 1: Bautista thirteen days later, San miguel A Congol on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifth July, and San Fernando Rey de Espana on
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  Speaker 1: the eighth September of the same year in San Luira
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  Speaker 1: de Francia commonly called San Luisray to distinguish it from
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  Speaker 1: San Luis Obispo, on the thirteenth of the July, following
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  Speaker 1: the delay, which had not been at all anticipate in
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  Speaker 1: the establishment of this last named mission, was due to
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  Speaker 1: some difficulties in regard to site. With this ended so
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  Speaker 1: far as fresh foundations were concerned. The pious labors of
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  Speaker 1: Lasuan as Padre Presidente. He now returned to San Carlos
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  Speaker 1: to devote himself during the remainder of his life to
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  Speaker 1: the arduous duties of supervision and administration there. He died
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen o three, aged eighty three years. His successor, father,
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  Speaker 1: Esteban Tapis, fourth President of the Upper California Missions, signalized
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  Speaker 1: his elevation to office by adding a nineteenth to the
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  Speaker 1: establishments under his charge, founded on the seventeenth September eighteen
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  Speaker 1: o four on a spot eighteen miles from La Parissima
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  Speaker 1: and twenty two from Santa Barbara to which Lasuen had
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  Speaker 1: already directed attention. This was dedicated to the Virgin martyr
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  Speaker 1: Santa Ynaz. It was felt that a settlement somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: this region was still needed for the completion of the
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  Speaker 1: mission system, since without it a gap was left in
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  Speaker 1: the line between the two missions first named, which were
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  Speaker 1: some forty miles apart. With the planting of Santa Ynez,
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  Speaker 1: thorough spiritual occupation may be said to have been accomplished
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  Speaker 1: over the entire area between San Francisco and San Diego,
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  Speaker 1: and from the coast range to the ocean. The nineteen
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  Speaker 1: missions had been so distributed over the vast country that
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  Speaker 1: the Indians scattered through it could everywhere be reached, while
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  Speaker 1: the distance from mission to mission had at the same
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  Speaker 1: time been so reduced that it was in no case
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  Speaker 1: too great to be easily covered in a single day's journey.
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  Speaker 1: The fathers of each establishment could thus hold frequent intercourse
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  Speaker 1: with their next neighbors, and occasional travelers moving to and
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  Speaker 1: fro long business, could from day to day be certain
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  Speaker 1: of finding a place for refreshment and repose. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight