Mission San Juan Bautista
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- Another mission bearing the name San Juan Bautista is the Misión San Juan Bautista Malibat (Misión Liguí) in Baja California Sur.
 A view of the restored Mission San Juan Bautista and its added three-bell campanario ("bell wall") in 2004. Two of the bells were salvaged from the original chime, which was destoyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. |
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| Location | San Juan Bautista, California |
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| Name as Founded | La Misión de San Juan Bautista [1] |
| Translation | The Mission of Saint John the Baptist |
| Namesake | Saint John the Baptist |
| Nickname(s) | "The Mission of Music" |
| Founding Date | June 24, 1797 [2] |
| Founding Priest(s) | Father Fermín Lasuén |
| Founding Order | Fifteenth |
| Military District | Third |
| Native Tribe(s) Spanish Name(s) |
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| Owner | Roman Catholic Church |
| Current Use | Parish Church |
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| California Historical Landmark | #195 |
Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form. The town of San Juan Bautista, which grew up around the Mission, expanded rapidly during the California Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today. Mission San Juan Bautista has served mass daily since 1797, so it has never experienced much of a "rebirth." The structures suffered extensive damage in the earthquakes of 1800 and 1906. The Mission was restored initially 1884, and then again in 1949 with funding from the Hearst Foundation, and today continues to serve as a parish of the Catholic Diocese of Monterey.
The Mission and its grounds were featured prominently in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Associate producer Herbert Coleman's daughter Judy Lanini suggested the Mission to Hitchcock as a filming location. A steeple, added sometime after the Mission's original construction and secularization had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a "bell tower" using scale models, matte paintings, and trick photography at the Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles.
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[edit] Other historic designations
- National Register of Historic Places #NPS-69000038 — San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5.
- Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8.
[edit] See also
- Spanish missions in California
- Teatro Campesino
- USNS Mission San Juan (AO-126) — a Buenaventura Class fleet oiler built during World War II.
[edit] External links
- Vertigo at the Internet Movie Database
| California missions |
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San Diego de Alcalá (1769) · San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (1770) · San Antonio de Padua (1771) · San Gabriel Arcángel (1771) · San Luis Obispo (1772) · San Francisco de Asís (1776) · San Juan Capistrano (1776) · Santa Clara de Asís (1777) · San Buenaventura (1782) · Santa Barbara (1786) · La Purísima Concepción (1787) · Santa Cruz (1791) · Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1791) · San José (1797) · San Juan Bautista (1797) · San Miguel Arcángel (1797) · San Fernando Rey de España (1797) · San Luis Rey de Francia (1798) · Santa Inés (1804) · San Rafael Arcángel (1817) · San Francisco Solano (1823) |
