san fernando for cmsa 3.2
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Welcome to the presentation of Mission San Fernando de Velicatá
Founded May 14, 1769 byFranciscan President Junípero Serra
The First Franciscan and the 18th
California mission founded since the first at Loreto in 1697…
500 miles south on El Camino Real
Baja California is a land of missions! The Jesuits founded 17, the Franciscans founded 1, and the Dominicans founded 9… 27 in total. Only in central Baja California are missions from the three Orders found within 100 miles of each other: Santa María, San Fernando, El Rosario.
San Juan de Dios
San Fernando de Velicatá
Santa María
Calamajué
El Rosario
The last Jesuit, the first Franciscan, and the first Dominican California missions, plus the visita, San Juan de Dios.
Velicatá was discovered on March 5, 1766 by the Jesuit missionary Padre Wenceslao Linck while exploring for new mission locations. The Jesuits hoped to expand the California missions around the Gulf of California to the Sonora missions. Velicatá was too far from San Borja, so Calamajué was
established first.
Dates in March 1766
1954 El Camino Real Map by Howard Gulick
Arthur North at Mission San Fernando on February 13, 1906
Mission plan by PeverilMeigs, III. Research in 1926.
Close-up: Peveril Meigs’ plan of church
San Fernando as photographed by G.W. Hendry in 1926
San Fernando as photographed by Marquis McDonald in 1949 from the west side.
San Fernando as photographed by Howard Gulick in 1953
San Fernando as photographed by Howard Gulick in 1959
David Kier’s first visit to San Fernando. Photo taken in April, 1974
1949 to 1974 (after 25 years, only a minor loss of walls)
San Fernando as photographed by David Kier, in 1975
1959 to 1975 (after 16 years, almost no change noticed)
1975 1981
Just 6 years between these two photos
1981
In just 6 years, major wall loss!
1987
In the six years from 1975 to 1981, huge loss. The next six years to 1987 very little change.
Photos by Dr.Hans Bertsch
San Fernando as photographed by Jack Swords in 2002
Petroglyphs west of mission Photographs by David Kier in 2005
Native Indians at Velicatá for many years before the Spanish arrived
San Fernando photo by Hans Bertsch in 2012
San Fernando photographed by David Kier in 2014 from helicopter for ‘Trail of Missions’ TV special.
View looking east, Mex. Hwy. 1 in distance.
San Fernando 2014
San Fernando 2014
San Fernando in June, 2014 by David Kier
Mission San Fernando’s Visita of San Juan de Dios,photographed in 1973 by Clyde McMorrow
San Juan de Dios as photographedby David Kierin July, 2000.
San Juan de Dios as photographed in 2003 by Jack Swords
INAH Plan of San Juan de DiosVisita ruins recognized by INAH
VisitaSan Juan de Dios site destroyed by farmer’s plow as seen in this 2008 photograph by David M.
The Old Missions of Baja California are vanishing. Photographs taken over the years have preserved them. Take photographs to keep the history of ALL California missions alive! Contact me if you would like to see these slides on your own computer, thank you! David Kier co-author ‘The Old Missions…’facebook.com/oldmissionsEmail: [email protected]