The northern-most of the four mission of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is Mission Concepción. This mission seems to be the smallest of the four and there were very few people there when I visited, but it does have the most intact surviving church from the 18th century and according to the National Park… Read More Mission Concepción
At the midpoint of the string of 5 historic missions in San Antonio is Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo. In 1720, the governor of Coahuila and Texas, the Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo authorized and funded the mission and a Franciscan Father named Antonio Margil de Jesus founded it near the… Read More Mission San Jose
The second mission that I visited on my day-trip to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park was Mission San Juan. This mission is across the river and not far from Mission Espada which I wrote about last week. The mission was originally founded in 1716 by Franciscans as Mission San Jose de los Nazonis near… Read More Mission San Juan Capistrano
Inspired by Chasing Unicorns I recently visited San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in San Antonio. There are five Spanish missions in San Antonio and the National Historical Park encompasses the four you’ve probably never heard of. I visited these four on a day trip recently and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn’t visit the… Read More Mission Espada
Jason Frels 