Mission Santa Clara de Asís, located in Santa Clara, approximately 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, was the eighth mission in the chain. Founded on January 12, 1777, by Father Tomás de la Peña, under the Presidency of Father Junípero …
Mission San Buenaventura, located in the city of Ventura, was founded on March 31, 1782, by Padre Junípero Serra and named for Saint Bonaventure. The first church was destroyed by the 1812 earthquake and rebuilt in 1816. San Buenaventura is …
Mission Santa Barbara, the tenth mission in the California Mission Chain, was founded on the Feast of Saint Barbara on December 4, 1786, by Father Fermín de Lasuén. The legend holds that when still a young girl, Saint Barbara was …
Mission La Purísima Concepción, located in Lompoc, was founded on December 8, 1787, by Padre Lasuén and named the Immaculate Conception of Mary the Most Pure. Eleventh in the California chain of missions, the mission was situated in a rich …
Mission Santa Cruz, located in the city of Santa Cruz, near the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, was the twelfth mission in the chain. It was founded on August 28, 1791, by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén and dedicated …
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad was founded on October 9th, 1791 by Father Fermín Lasuén and named Our Lady of Solitude. It is thirteenth in the chain of the missions. In 1797, the first church was completed and enlarged …
Mission San José (sometimes called Mission San José de Guadalupe because of the nearby pueblo named San José de Guadalupe) was founded on June 11, 1797 by Father Fermín de Francisco Lasuén and named for Saint Joseph. The mission is …