Article: Unique, living mission.(an exploration of California's mission churches)

San Antonio de Pala recalls California's Spanish past in midst of Indian community it serves to this day

An exploration of California's mission churches can be a contradictory experience. The recreations of Spanish colonial architecture and the surrounding grounds are both charming and prayerful, and invite the visitor to stroll through the past. But that past is one marked by tragedy -- the genocide of a people carried out, however unwittingly, by men of faith.

On California's coast from san Diego to: Sonoma, mission churches bear the Spanish conquest of Alta California in the: late 18th and early 19th centuries. Founded by Spanish Franciscans to ...

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