On Nov. 19, 1781, in an elaborate ritual, Father Serra blessed and laid a cornerstone for the third Mission Church. In a cavity in the cornerstone were placed a crucifix, religious images, and Spanish ...

Concepción Church is “really a major achievement” of Spanish and Indigenous masons and craftsmen of the mission era, said Myjer, who has worked on dinosaur footprints in the Connecticut River ...

The president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE, by its Spanish acronym), Archbishop Luis Argüello, opened the conference’s 127th plenary assembly this week with a deep analysis of ...

The park preserves the largest intact concentration of Spanish Colonial buildings in the United States today, including exquisite mission churches with Romanesque, Moorish and Spanish baroque designs ...

unusual features to find in Spanish mission churches. Founded in 1776, Mission Dolores, also known as the Mission of St.