*** Welcome to piglix ***

Mission Santa Clara

Mission Santa Clara de Asís
Mission Santa Clara de Asís
Mission Santa Clara
Mission Santa Clara de Asís is located in San Jose, California
Mission Santa Clara de Asís
Location in the Santa Clara Valley
Location 500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, California 95053
Coordinates 37°20′57″N 121°56′30″W / 37.349269°N 121.9416°W / 37.349269; -121.9416Coordinates: 37°20′57″N 121°56′30″W / 37.349269°N 121.9416°W / 37.349269; -121.9416
Name as founded La Misión Santa Clara de Asís 
English translation The Mission of Saint Clare of Assisi
Founding date January 12, 1777 
Founding priest(s) Father Presidente Junípero Serra 
Founding Order Eighth
Military district Fourth
Native tribe(s)
Spanish name(s)
Bay Miwok, Tamyen, Yokuts
Costeño
Native place name(s) Socoisuka 
Baptisms 8,536
Marriages 2,498
Burials 6,809
population 1,125
Secularized 1836
Governing body Santa Clara University; Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose
Current use University of the chapel; Parish church
Reference no. #338
Website
www.scu.edu/mission/

Mission Santa Clara de Asís is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in the present-day city of Santa Clara, California. The mission, the eighth in California, was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares. It is the namesake of both the city and county of Santa Clara, as well as Santa Clara University, which was built around the mission. This was the first California mission to be named in honor of a woman and the only one now located on a university campus.

Although ruined and rebuilt six times, the settlement was never abandoned, and today it functions as both a parish church of the Diocese of San Jose and a university chapel for Santa Clara University.

The outpost was originally established as La Misión Santa Clara de Thamien (or Mission Santa Clara de Thamien, a reference to the Tamyen people) at the Indian village of So-co-is-u-ka (meaning "Laurelwood", located on the Guadalupe River) January 12, 1777. There the Franciscan brothers erected a cross and shelter for worship to bring Christianity to the Ohlone and Costanoan peoples. Floods, fires, and earthquakes damaged many of the early structures and forced relocation to higher ground. The second site is known as Mission Santa Clara de Asís. A subsequent site of the mission dating from 1784 to 1819 is located several hundred yards west of the De La Cruz overpass of the Caltrain track; moreover, several Native American burial sites have been discovered near this subsequent site. The current site, home to the first college in Alta California, dates back to 1828.


...
Wikipedia

...