AT&T Uncommon Mission: California Missions: Santa Clara de Asís

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"Tower & Church: A Red Walk"
Father Jerome Tupa
63 " x 76" / Oil on canvas
1997

Santa Clara de Asís

This is the first Mission to honor a woman, Saint Clara of Assisi. Another of the Serra-founded Missions, Santa Clara was established in January, 1777. It was the location of the first college in California. Some call Santa Clara the most persistent of all twenty-one Missions. It has been relocated five times, and the present-day church is the sixth version. Earthquakes, floods, and fires seemed to follow the Mission each time it was moved.

The Mission today is a reconstruction of the 1822 version, and many of the objects and decorations inside the church are replicas of the originals.

Click on the painting at left to see a full-screen image.

Other Mission Santa Clara de Asís sites:
Santa Clara Univeristy, Mission Santa Clara History, Copyright © 1995-2000 Santa Clara University.
California Mission History, Santa Clara de Asís, page 1, and page 2 . The California Mission Site. Ed. The Civic Group. 24 Sept. 1998.
Mission Santa Clara de Asis: a nice page with photos from Mrs. Dietz, Mrs. Newton and Mrs. Goodwin's 4th Grade, Holy Family Educational Center, San Jose, California.
The California Missions On-Line Project, Mission Santa Clara, Rob Garretson (1998).
Mission Santa Clara de Asis - Virtual Tours from the Carmel Menu Page. Several Quicktime VR's including Inside, the neighborhood, Courtyard, and cemetery. Created by Sandra Stockton and Annette Weiskircher, California State University, Sacramento, Graduate Students, 2001.
Virtual Guidebook to the South Bay, Mission Santa Clara. Virtual Reality views of The old adobe wall, the original cross, and inside the church. Don Bain (author and photographer of The Virtual Guidebooks).

First posted April, 2001.

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