Tag: walking pilgrimage

Mission Monday:Mission San Juan Batista

The last of California’s Spanish Plazas is surrounded by the largest of the Spanish Missions, Mission San Juan Batista, the last unpaved portion of California’s historic El Camino Real, an old adobe convent that was once part of the mission…

Mission Monday: San Antonio de Padua

The California Mission Trail runs North and South through coastal towns and the inland hills. Alto California’s “El Camino Real” or The Royal Road was the King’s highway in Spanish Colonial times. El Camino Real is now part of California’s Hwy 101…

Mission Monday: Mission Bells

As I visited this quiet little mission, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, just a few miles from California’s Highway 101 I heard this song in my head. It is title “The Mission” by The Newsboys.  I could hear the mission…

Mission Monday: Francis

Yes, he is handsome too. Even the ceiling, windows and doors are handsome. And kind of masculine. He’s pretty old though, older than any other building in all of San Francisco. Even John Paul came to pray with him here….

Mission Monday: Clare

She really is lovely, isn’t she? The Mission Santa Clara is the first Mission to be named for a woman. I think the school children thought she was lovely too. She is located on the Santa Clara University Campus. She is…