Thirteen days after he dedicated Mission San José, Father Lasuén was at San Juan Bautista, where he performed a like ceremony. Mission San Juan Bautista joined the growing chain of Franciscan establishments on June 24, 1797. Within six months, Mission …
Spanish Corporal Juan Ballesteros and five men came to the site of San Juan Bautista Mission (“Saint John the Baptist”) in the late spring of 1797. In a month, they had erected a chapel, houses for themselves and the Padres, …
Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797, by Father Fermín Lasuén. A year later, in 1798, the first church was completed. Named after John the Baptist, San Juan Bautista was located north of Salinas and ranked fifteenth …