Cedar
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Joined : 15 May 2007
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|  Subject: Mission San Juan Bautista  Sun 24 Jun 2007, 10:21 pm | |
| While little remains of her for the eye to consider, the influence of Mission San Juan Bautista was great upon the early development of our state .... our state, which has been a frontier province of Spain, of Mexico, an an independent republic prior to becoming the twenty-eighth star in the national flag which we now reverence and salute.
The year was 1699; the date that of today. Two pioneers from Queretaro -- far to the south -- had traveled into the brush country near the Rio Grande in response to a vision. They had set it in their hearts to establish an outreach to the people who lived in that region. With the founding of Mission San Juan Bautista, Fathers Francisco Hidalgo, Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, and Marcos de Guerena laid a spiritual and temporal foundation not only for northern Mexico, but for East Texas and San Antonio de Bexar over the decades of the next century. More of their story and contribution can be read here:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/daybyday/06-24-003.html
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves |
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