Whereas the term peninsula technically refers to the entire geographical San Franciscan Peninsula, in local jargon, " The Peninsula " does not include the city of San Francisco.

Also in 1776, Fray Francisco Garces, a Franciscan missionary, spent a week near Havasupai, unsuccessfully attempting to convert a band of Native Americans to Christianity.

Entombed at the foot of the altar are the remains of eight Franciscan priests ( listed in order of interment ): Father Miguel Sánchez, Father Antonio Cruzado, Father Francisco Dumetz, Father Roman Ulibarri, Father Joaquin P. Nuez, Father Gerónimo Boscana, Father José Bernardo Sánchez, and Father Blas Ordaz.

Father Padre Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta ( June 7, 1736 – June 26, 1803 ) was a Spanish missionary to Alta California, the second presidente and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain.

" The Chief was given the Spanish name Francisco Solano during baptism at the Catholic Mission, and is named after the Spanish Franciscan missionary, Father Francisco Solano.

Later the same year, the Franciscan missionary Francisco Palóu founded the Mission San Francisco de Asís ( Mission Dolores ).

It was dedicated by Padre Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta, who succeeded Padre Serra as the second presidente and founder of the California Franciscan Mission Chain.

The town of Sonoma began with the foundation of Mission San Francisco Solano in 1823 by Father José Altimira of the Franciscan Order.

* Mission San Francisco Solano (# 3 )-On July 4, 1823, Padre José Altamira founded the northernmost of California's Franciscan missions here, the only one established in California under independent Mexico.

Its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route later followed by fur trappers.

Henry appears clothed in a Franciscan habit, although his hands are holding his sword in his girdle, which runs parallel to the Cordón de San Francisco.

The San Francisco church is what is left of a Franciscan monastery dedicated to Diego de Alcalá.

Only a few Pomo speakers moved south to Mission Sonoma, the other Franciscan mission, located on the north side of San Francisco Bay.

Golden Baroque inner decoration of the São Francisco Church and Convent | Franciscan church of Salvador ( first half of 18th century ).

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From 1769 to 1776 the Franciscan missionary Francisco Garcés of converso morisco descent, was exploring Sonora, Baja California, California, Arizona, and Nevada.

Giving up all his worldly belongings, and changing his baptismal name, Gonzalo, for that of Francisco, he entered the Franciscan friary of San Juan de los Reyes, recently founded by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile at Toledo.

The first church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is older than the Archdiocese itself ; Mission San Francisco de Asís was founded on June 29, 1776 by Franciscan Friars.

From 1769 to 1823, the Franciscan order led by Junípero Serra and later by Fermín de Francisco Lasuén established twenty-one missions between present-day San Diego and Sonoma, six of which were located in the present-day territory of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The basilica and the monastery of San Francisco de Asis ( Saint Francis of Assisi ) were built in Havana, Cuba at the end of sixteenth century ( 1580 – 91 ) as the home of the Franciscan community, and were altered in the baroque style in 1730.

Alperin v. Vatican Bank is a class action suit by Holocaust survivors against the Institute for Works of Religion and Franciscan Order (" Order of Friars Minor ") filed in San Francisco, California on November 15, 1999.

The Servant of God Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés, O. F. M., ( April 12, 1738 – July 18, 1781 ) was a Spanish Franciscan friar, who served as a missionary and explorer in the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain.

Garcés travelled to New Spain ( Mexico ) and served at the Franciscan college of Santa Cruz in Querétaro.

In 1768, when the King of Spain expelled the Jesuits from their extensive mission system in northwestern New Spain ; within present-day Baja California Peninsula, Northwest Mexico, and the Southwestern United States ), Garcés was among the Franciscan replacements.

The facility, which opened in 1887, was named after Padre Francisco Garcés, a noted Franciscan Spain | Spanish priest who made several journeys through the region in 1771 and 1774 en route between southern Arizona and the Spanish missions in California | California Missions.

Other expeditions under another Franciscan missionary Francisco Garcés, and Captain Juan Bautista de Anza then explored and traded in the southern part of the region, finding shorter and less arduous routes through the mountains and deserts which connected Sonora to New Mexico and California, but did not become part of the Old Spanish Trail, with the exception of some of the paths through the Mojave Desert.

Virgilio Canio Corbo, a Franciscan priest and archaeologist, who was present at the excavations, estimated from the archaeological evidence that the western retaining wall, of the temple itself, would have passed extremely close to the east side of the supposed tomb ; if the wall had been any further west any tomb would have been crushed under the weight of the wall ( which would be immediately above it ) if it had not already been destroyed when foundations for the wall were made.

It is estimated that the number of lay Franciscan Tertiaries now exceeds two million.

According to one estimate, the native population in and around the missions proper was approximately 80, 000 at the time of the confiscation ; others claim that the < u > statewide </ u > population had dwindled to approximately 100, 000 by the early 1840s, due in no small part to the natives ' exposure to European diseases they lacked immunity from, and from the Franciscan practice of cloistering women in the convento and controlling sexuality during the child-bearing age.

Father Juan Crespí, as a member of the Portolà expedition of 1769, authored the first written account of actual interaction between Franciscan friars and the indigenous population in the region that today makes up Orange County, after the group passed through on July 22 of that year.

The new Franciscan priests, Fathers Isidoro Barcenilla and Agustín Merino, succeeded in attracting more converts from villages to the north and east of the mission, so that by the end of the first year it had population of 33 newly-converted Catholic Indians, known to the missionaries as neophytes ( McCarthy 1958 ).

The final Franciscan mission to be constructed in native Chumash territory was Santa Ynez, founded in 1804 on the Santa Ynez River with a seed population of Chumash people from Missions La Purisima and Santa Barbara.

After an outbreak of the Black Death in 1347, which greatly reduced the population, an order of Franciscan monks established a presence in the city.

The population grew so much that in 1695, to aid catechism, the missionaries ( Carmelite, Jesuit, Franciscan ) resolved to erect near the fort a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Conception, which in time became the patron saint of the city.

They joined the Franciscan mission system during the early nineteenth century, suffered a devastating population decline, and lost their language as they intermarried with other native California ethnic groups and learned the Spanish language.

A small group of Franciscan friars left Germany in 1858 to serve the German-speaking population in what was then the frontier state of Illinois.

Most with unmixed Spanish ancestry were Franciscan priests and a few officers probably less than 5 % of the Californio population.

The Hungarians also sent Franciscan monks to convert the population of the Vidin Tsardom to Catholicism.

For four centuries, the Catholic Albanians defended their faith, aided by Franciscan missionaries, beginning in the middle of the 17th century, when persecution by Ottoman Turkish lords in Albania started to result in the conversion of many villages to the Islamic faith, particularly among the Orthodox population.

Located in the foot of a hill with the same name, the city started as a Franciscan Mission with the Guaraní population.

In 1769 he joined the expedition of Gaspar de Portolà and traveled by land, while Father Serra accompanied the mission supplies aboard ship and arrived 8 days later to occupy Monterey ; he authored the first written account of actual interaction between Franciscan friars and the indigenous population after his expedition traveled through the region known today as Orange County on July 22 of that year.