Sea of Cortez and Mission San Javier in Loreto
In 1980, Jacques Cousteau visited the Sea of Cortez in Baja California Sur, Mexico, and deemed it the largest aquarium in the world. We recently took a trip to Loreto, Baja California Sur, to explore the islands in the Sea of Cortez and get up close and personal with the inhabitants of this natural aquarium. We then followed guide Roberto Salazar of Wild Loreto up the Sierra de la Giganta mountain range to Mission San Javier, the second oldest mission in Baja, to learn more about the history of this town and the effort to carry on its legacy.
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Cabalgata Loreto - San Javier 2016
Cabalgata tradicional Loreto - San javier 2016
Se reúnen cabalgantes de toda la zona, para iniciar desde la mision de Nuestra Señora de Loreto hasta llegar a la mision de San Francisco Javier
Baja California trip: Visiting Mission San Francisco Javier/Loreto
Day four of a ten-day road trip through Baja peninsula.NOTE: Road to the MIssion has been fixed! Source:
Las Misiones Jesuíticas de la Antigua California - Baja California Sur - México
Desde los inicios de la Península Ibérica, el Tratado de Tordesillas y el comienzo de las expediciones al Nuevo Mundo es la historia previa a la creación de una nueva orden religiosa creada por Ignacio de Loyola y un grupo de amigos. La fundación de la Compañía de Jesús en 1540 con un lema A la Mayor Gloria de Dios AMDG.
Sus integrantes,llamados jesuitas, llegan en 1568 al Perú y en 1572 a México.
Las Misiones del Noroeste de la Nueva España empiezan en Sinaloa en 1591 , continúan en Sonora en 1614 y en 1697 inician en Loreto, Baja California Sur la permanencia estable de misiones en esta península.
La Fiesta Patronal de San Francisco Javier (Viggé-Biaundó) es la muestra de la devoción mas profunda de toda la región, donde conviven las cabalgatas dedicadas al Santo, los rezos, las promesas y las danzas de los matachines.
En síntesis, abordaremos la historia de las misiones jesuíticas en la península de Baja California, recorriendo los distintos pueblos misionales. Su arquitectura, pintura, retablos, imaginería y sus paisajes naturales, destacan el esfuerzo y la tenacidad de los jesuitas en estas tierras, representados por la Misión de San Francisco Javier: Monumento de la lucha del hombre contra la adversidad.
Esta ya famosa frase fue acuñada por el Dr. W. Michael Mathes, historiador y bibliófilo del México Virreinal, devoto de las Californias desde su niñez. Este documental contiene su última entrevista, filmada en la Capilla de Novicios de Tepotzotlán en agosto de 2011, e intenta ser un afectuoso homenaje por toda su obra.
Documental de 60 minutos, filmado en la Baja California en agosto de 2011 y en diciembre de 2012-Post-producción en el Estudio Roque González de Santa Cruz
Produción Ejecutiva: P. Ignacio García-Mata, S.J,
Consultoría histórica desde México:Carmen Boone-Canovas, Locución:Marcelo Salazar-Guión y dirección: Sergio Raczko
Buenos Aires - Argentina - Diciembre 2013
Los jesuitas en Baja California
Lic. Leonardo Benjamín Varela Cabral, UNAM: “El templo misional de San Francisco Javier Viggé-Biaundó y la evangelización jesuítica en California (1744-1768)”
San Xavier
History
San Xavier Mission was established in 1692 by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, founder of the chain of Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert. A Jesuit of Italian descent, he often visited and preached in the area, then the Pimería Alta colonial territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.[1] Construction of the first mission church, about two miles (3 km) from the site of today's Mission, began on April 28, 1700, as noted in his diary:
On the twenty-eighth we began the foundations of a very large and capacious church and house of San Xavier del Bac, all of the many people working with much pleasure and zeal, some in digging for the foundations, others in hauling many and very good stones of tezontle from a little hill which was about a quarter of a league away. ...On the twenty-ninth we continued laying the foundations of the church and of the house.[5]
The little hill is believed to be that southeast of San Xavier del Bac. Charles III of Spain distrusted Jesuits and in 1767 banned them from Spanish lands in the Americas. He installed what he considered the more pliable and reliable Franciscans as replacements. The original church proved vulnerable to Apache attacks, which finally destroyed it in about 1770. From 1775 on, the mission community and its Indian converts were protected somewhat from Apache raids by the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson, established roughly 7 miles (11 km) downstream on the Santa Cruz River.
The present Mission building was constructed under the direction of Franciscan fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz between 1783 and 1797.[1] With 7,000 pesos[6] borrowed from a Sonoran rancher, they hired architect Ignacio Gaona, who employed a large workforce of O'odham to create today's church.[1]
Following Mexican independence in 1821, what was then known as Alta California was administered from Mexico City. In 1822, the Mission was included under the jurisdiction of the Catholic Diocese of Sonora. In 1828, the Mexican government banned all Spanish-born priests, with the last resident Franciscan departing San Xavier for Spain in 1837.
Left vacant, the Mission began to decay. Concerned about their church, local Indians began to preserve what they could. With the Gadsden Purchase in 1854, San Xavier was brought under U.S. rule as part of the Territory of Arizona. The church was re-opened in 1859 when the Santa Fe Diocese added the Mission to its jurisdiction. It ordered repairs paid for with diocesan money, and assigned a priest to serve the community. In 1868 the Diocese of Tucson was established. It provided for regular services to be held again at the church.
In 1872 the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet opened a school at the Mission for the Tohono O'odham children. In 1895 a grant of $1,000 was given to repair the building. More classrooms were added in 1900. The Franciscans returned to the Mission in 1913. In 1947, they built a new school next to the church for the local children. #nosamllcreator #missionsanxavier #timelapse
Franciscan Church of Salitillo Mexico
The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of religious outposts established by ... Misión San Francisco de Saltillo in ... Coahuila.
Restaurant Bar La Palapa
Carmen Arreola gerente de el Restaurant Bar La Palapa en el 3er Festival Gastronómico de Almeja Chocolata Loreto 2015, entrevista por Maria José Baena.