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Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon.Founded on July 14, 1771, it was the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra.
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in Oceanside, California. This mission is architecturally distinctive because of the strong combination of Spanish , Moorish , and Mexican lines exhibited. Although the missions were considered temporary ventures by the Spanish hierarchy , the development of an individual settlement was not simply a matter of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic ...
The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the Pala Mission, was founded on June 13, 1816, as an asistencia or "sub-mission" to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the latter mission on the San Luis Rey River.
Fray Antonio de Olivares also built the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, on the west side of the San Antonio River, approximately 1 mile from the mission. [4] It was designed to protect the system of missions and civilian settlements in central Texas and to ensure Spanish claims in the region against possible encroachment from other European powers.
San Antonio de Padua, or plainly Padua, is a city in the Greater Buenos Aires, in Argentina. It is located in Merlo Partido . The city has an area of 6.25 km 2 (2 sq mi) and a population of around 38,000.
Cities: Merlo, San Antonio de Padua, Parque San Martín, Mariano Acosta, Libertad and Pontevedra. Merlo covers 170 km 2 (66 sq mi) and is bordered by the partidos of Morón and Ituzaingó (northeast), La Matanza (southeast), Marcos Paz (southwest), and Moreno and the Reconquista River (northwest).
The Church of Saint Anthony of Padua (Spanish: Templo de San Antonio de Padua) is a Catholic church and monument in downtown Aguascalientes, Mexico, built between 1895 and 1908. The church is widely considered the masterpiece of Refugio Reyes Rivas , a mason who went to become one of the most influential architects in the region.