Remember that time I visited the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco with “The Visitors?” I promised I would go back and take pictures of the scaled replica of Saint Francis’s Porziuncola (small portion of land), which is…
Always forward, never back. ~ Bl. Junipero Serra’s motto. LINK to all my postings on his missions in California.
I’m not really sure how it started. How I thought I wanted to visit the Colosseum on Good Friday. It felt like the Catholic answer to Mecca for me. Like I had to do it just once in my life,…
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 San Miguel: A Photo Essay
Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony, please come around, something is lost that must be found. What is lost? Me in this post. I’ve labored over it for weeks. I finally had my husband proof it for me, and well, it sucked….