The Franciscans had selected an attractive meadowland in the area immediately south of San Francisco Bay as the site of Mission Santa Clara de Asís. Its actual settlement was another matter, though. Father Palóu, willing to set up his mission …
The Franciscan Padres intended to found another mission in pretty meadowland a few miles south of San Francisco Bay as soon as the San Francisco mission was well established. As expected, mission Santa Clara de Asís was established only three …
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 …