Mission San Rafael Arcángel

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Mission San Rafael Arcángel
Mission San Rafael Arcángel (church building)

Mission San Rafael Arcángel (church building)

Data
place 1104 5th Avenue, San Rafael , Marin County , California , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Architectural style Mission Revival Style
Construction year 1817/1949
demolition 1870
Coordinates 37 ° 58 '27.6 "  N , 122 ° 31' 40.5"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 58 '27.6 "  N , 122 ° 31' 40.5"  W.
Location of the Spanish missions in Upper California with the designation of the sequence (Mission San Rafael Arcángel: No. 20)
Interior of the capilla (chapel) (photo 1974).

The Mission San Rafael Arcángel was a mission station of the Spaniards in California , at that time a province of the viceroyalty of New Spain ( Upper California ).

history

At first it was an asistencia (sub-mission) of the Mission San Francisco de Asís with the main purpose as an infirmary for Indians . It was the first sanatorium in Upper California . The structure is located in San Rafael , Marin County , California . Patron is the Archangel Raphael .

The mission station was founded on December 14, 1817 by the priest Vicente Francisco de Sarría with the name La Misión del Gloriosísimo Príncipe San Rafael, Arcángel (nickname "Mission of Bodily Healing"). In 1822 the facility was recognized as a full mission. It was the fourth Spanish mission station in California.

The station was abandoned in 1844 and sold for $ 8,000 in 1846. The buyer was John C. Frémont . In 1855 the station was bought back.

In 1870 everything was torn down except for a pear tree. In 1949 a replica of the chapel was built on the site where the infirmary was once located. Next door is Saint Raphael's Church. Today it is a chapel owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco .

Monument aspects

The chapel is a Californian Historical Landmark .

See also

literature

  • Forbes, Alexander (1839). California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, London.

Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar (eds.) (2007). California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0-7591-0872-2 .

  • Krell, Dorothy (ed.) (1979). The California Missions: A Pictorial History. Sunset Publishing Corporation, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-376-05172-8 .
  • Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5 .
  • Paddison, Joshua (ed.) (1999). A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 1-890771-13-9 .
  • Ruscin, Terry (1999). Mission Memoirs. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-932653-30-8 .

Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8 .

Web links

Commons : Mission San Rafael Arcángel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruscin, p. 169
  2. ↑ Ruscin, p. 167
  3. ↑ Krell, p. 295
  4. ↑ Ruscin, p. 167
  5. ↑ http://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-220
  6. ↑ http://noehill.com/marin/cal0220.asp
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