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Mission Santa Clara. / 37.3493; -121.9415. Mission Santa Clara de Asís (Spanish: Misión Santa Clara de Asís) is a Spanish mission in the city of Santa Clara, California. The mission, which was the eighth in California, was founded on January 12, 1777, by the Franciscans. Named for Saint Clare of Assisi, who founded the order of the Poor ...
Serves as a parish church within Santa Clara University. Mission Santa Cruz: 1791 Santa Cruz: Nonextant. A reconstruction of the original mission was completed in the 1930s, which serves as a parish church and museum. Mission San Juan Bautista: 1797 San Juan Bautista
Carmelite Convent of the Infant Jesus in Santa Clara (1917) The first Catholic presence in the present day San Jose area, then part of the Spanish empire, was the Mission Santa Clara de Asís, built in 1777. The missionary Junipero Serra established the mission on the Guadalupe River to minister to the Ohlone Native Americans. [4]
Mission College (Mission or MC) is a public community college in Santa Clara, California. It is part of the West Valley–Mission Community College District. The land the college is on was bought between 1966 and 1967. [2] Mission College opened for its first year in 1975. In 1979 it had grown to "3,500 students, 8 administrators, and 73 ...
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, United States. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. [5] The university's campus surrounds the historic Mission Santa Clara de Asís which traces its founding to 1777.
Mission Santa Cruz: 2,466 baptisms total 644 people in 1798 [34] 2,034 deaths total 250 people remaining in 1834 [34] 17 Mission Santa Clara de Asís: 7,711 baptisms (3,177 children) 927 people in 1790, 1,464 in 1827 [35] 150 people remaining in 1834 [35] Very sharp decline in the native population from 1827 to 1834.
Memorial Cross Park, also known as Mission Cross Park, is a small 0.34-acre (0.14 ha) city park in Santa Clara, California which was the second, temporary site of the Mission Santa Clara de Asís, from 1779 to 1784. A large granite cross was donated to the city by a local Lions Club in 1953 and stood there until it was removed in late 2016 ...
52 mariners. SS Mission Santa Clara was a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. After the war she was acquired by the United States Navy as USS Mission Santa Clara (AO-132). Later the tanker transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service as USNS Mission Santa Clara (T-AO-132).