As of 2007, there are about 150 serving regular chaplains ( commonly known as " padres ") in the British Army ; these can belong to one of several Christian churches, or to the Jewish faith, although currently all chaplains are Christian.

Unfortunately, Señor Aguilár died six years into the project ; his work was carried on by the padres and their charges, who made their best attempts to emulate the existing construction.

Since most of the settlements were located in valleys or coastal plains almost totally devoid of suitably large trees, the padres were in most cases limited to pine, alder, poplar, cypress and juniper trees for use in their construction efforts.

The surviving chapel also serves as the final resting place of three padres who passed on while serving at the Mission: Fathers José Barona, Vicente Fustér, and Vicente Pascual Oliva are all entombed beneath the sanctuary floor.

The building is rich in details including a terra cotta facade with scrolls, floral designs, and whimsical faces of Franciscan padres, the order that founded the city of Ventura in 1782.

Captain ( OF-2 ) | Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada violated ecclesiastical Right of asylum | asylum at Mission San Diego de Alcalá on March 26, 1776 when he forcibly removed a ' neophyte ' in direct defiance of the padres.

The former Spanish settlement at Sajavit lies within that area occupied during the late Paleoindian period and continuing on into the present day by the Native American society commonly known as the Juaneño ; the name denotes those people who were ministered by the padres at Mission San Juan Capistrano.

Mission padres named the valley, San Jacinto, which is Spanish for Saint Hyacinth, and around 1820 they established an outpost there.

The oldest names in Emery County are Spanish, not Native American — San Rafael, Sinbad, and probably Castle Valley itself, are landmarks of that era when Spanish padres, Spanish American explorers, fur traders, trappers, and frontiersmen followed the Old Spanish Trail through Emery.

After a three-day battle, Vallejo's troops forced the Miwok to flee to Mission San José, seeking refuge with the padres.

According to a written message sent by Governor Neve to report the pueblo's juridical foundation, that was when 44 pobladores, or settlers, gathered at San Gabriel Mission and, escorted by soldiers and two padres from the mission, set out for the chosen spot that Crespí had recorded twelve years earlier.

Buried among the padres is centenarian Eulalia Perez de Guillén Mariné, the " keeper of the keys " under Spanish rule ; her grave is marked by a bench dedicated in her memory.

These came to be known, as the media put it, as the padres de la Constitución or " fathers of the Constitution ".

: un libro de imágenes para niños y padres Salamanca: Lóguez Ediciones.

In 1818, when the pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard threatened to attack the California coast in support of the independence struggles raging in the Americas, the residents of Branciforte were reluctantly called upon to defend the Mission against sacking while the padres and neophytes took flight in other Missions further inland.

Gaula's history is tied to universe of local history, popular culture, literature, traditions and customs ; it was originally referred to as the terra do amadis de Gaula ( Land of Amadis de Gaula ), terra de adelos ” ( Land of the wandering salesmen ), terras de doutores ( Lands of the Doctors ), terra de padres ( Land of Priests ), terra das amoras ( Land of the Blackberries ) and terras de malvasias ( Land of the Malvasia ), among others, that served to identify it from other regions of the island.

Juan Bautista de Anza leading an exploratory expedition on January 8, 1774, with 3 padres, 20 soldiers, 11 servants, 35 mules, 65 cattle, and 140 horses set forth from Tubac south of present day Tucson, Arizona.

Everything consumed and otherwise utilized by the natives was produced at the missions under the supervision of the padres ; thus, the neophytes not only supported themselves, but after 1811 sustained the entire military and civil government of California.

Everything consumed and otherwise utilized by the natives was produced at the missions under the supervision of the padres ; thus, the neophytes not only supported themselves, but after 1811 sustained the entire military and civil government of California.

By 1830 even the neophyte populations themselves appeared confident in their own abilities to operate the mission ranches and farms independently ; the padres, however, doubted the capabilities of their charges in this regard.

To sustain a mission, the padres required the help of colonists or converted Native Americans, called neophytes, to cultivate crops and tend livestock in the volume needed to support a fair-sized establishment.

To the padres, a baptized Indian person was no longer free to move about the country, but had to labor and worship at the mission under the strict observance of the fathers and overseers, who herded them to daily masses and labors.

As of December 31, 1832 ( the peak of the mission system's development ) the mission padres had performed a combined total of 87, 787 baptisms and 24, 529 marriages, and recorded 63, 789 deaths.

The Nicoleños were evacuated in the early 19th century by the padres of the California mission system after a series of conflicts with Russian-led Aleutian fur trappers decimated their population.

Since importing the quantity of materials necessary for a large mission complex was impossible, the padres had to gather the materials they needed from the land around them.

On October 25, 1693, the padres burned the mission and retreated toward Monclova.

One of the padres laid a painting of " Our Lady of Sorrows " on the ground for all to see, whereupon the natives ( known to the settlers as the Gabrieliños ) immediately made peace with the missionaries, so moved were they by the painting's beauty.

This was approved by the King of Spain and on January 8, 1774, with 3 padres, 20 soldiers, 11 servants, 35 mules, 65 cattle, and 140 horses, he set forth from Tubac south of present day Tucson, Arizona.

Tradition has it that the padres sprinkled mustard seeds along the trail in order to mark it with bright yellow flowers.

Hoping to construct an edifice of truly magnificent proportions, the padres retained the services of maestro albañil ( master stonemason ) Isídro Aguilár of Culiacán.

The padres immediately resumed holding services in Serra's Church.

Thousands of cattle roamed the Mission ranges, and acres of wheat and other crops were planted and harvested under the direction of the padres.

In 1890, a Victorian-style rectory was built over the site of a portion of the adobe wing which housed the padres and served as the administration building during the Mission Era.

Old timbers and rawhide thongs demonstrate the practicality of the padres who, having no iron nails for building, substituted the leather laces.

Further reconstruction of the missing part of the padres ' living quarters and a restoration of the surviving adobe wing are part of the overall plans for the Mission.

Tradition has it that the padres sprinkled the mustard seeds along the trail in order to mark it with bright yellow flowers.

In recent years many of these churches had been closed or consolidated, due to declining population, shifts in local ethnicity, and church belt-tightening measures.

Francione writes that PETA initially set up independent chapters around the United States, but closed them in favor of a top-down, centralized organization, which not only consolidated decision-making power, but centralized donations too.

Most of their printing plants were closed and print operations consolidated to Racine by the mid 1990s.

A school was built at Hay Flat in 1910 and operated until it was consolidated with the Kermit school in 1913 ; that year the Hay Flat post office closed.

The school closed in 1946 and was consolidated with those in Matador, eleven miles to the south.

( Indeed, it was not until 1996 that Amtrak finally closed the old Santa Fe depot and consolidated all passenger operations at the site of the former Burlington Northern depot.

The junior-senior high school was closed in 1961, when Welton, along with the former Grand Mound and DeWitt school districts, consolidated to form the Central Community School District.

The former Joplin School was closed in 2005 when the consolidated Chester-Joplin-Inverness public school district was formed.

However, High Shoals Elementary was closed in 1998 for financial reasons and consolidated with Costner Elementary School near Dallas, North Carolina.

While the phone company remains in McClure and has yet to be consolidated into a larger telecom company, today most of McClure's businesses are long closed, as are those in most of the boom towns which grew up in the same era as McClure.

By 1988, the Clairton School District had consolidated its entire system into a single building ( a remodeled version of the high school ) and closed its other schools.

In 2004, Holy Trinity Church, originally designated as an ethnic Slovakian parish, was closed and consolidated with St. Michael the Archangel Church ( originally designated as an ethnic Polish parish ).

The public school was closed in 1966 when Roseville's school system became part of the Mansfield school system which later was consolidated into the Southern Tioga School District.

Its school was consolidated with the Rusk schools in the 1950s, and many of the town's businesses closed.

In the summer of 1971, the school was officially closed and all students were consolidated into the Brady Independent School District.

As stated above, that summer the announcement was made that MISD was officially closed and all remaining and new students from Melvin and the specified surrounding areas would be consolidated into the Brady Independent School District, of Brady, McCulloch County, Texas.

During the 1970s and 1980s, as the Mineral County school system consolidated schools in the area, all the town's schools were closed, challenging Ridgeley's cohesiveness as a community .< sup > 7 </ sup >

In 1998, Ceredo-Kenova and Buffalo-Wayne High Schools were closed and consolidated with Huntington, West Virginia based Vinson High School to form Spring Valley High School.

In 1947, the USAAF turned over the airfield to the United States Navy, which consolidated its facilities with those at the closing Harmon Air Force Base in 1949, and operated Naval Air Station, Agana until it was closed by the 1993 Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) Commission.

Under the management of Sir John Davis the Rank Organisation closed Independent Producers Ltd. and Denham Studios, and consolidated all of its film production at Pinewood Studios.

Thorn subsequently closed its Merthyr Tydfil lamp factory, consolidated its UK distribution centres and sold its South African business.

The Upland campus was closed and all operations were consolidated to Pennsylvania.

The West End brewery was closed between the wars, and the operations consolidated with the Southwark brewery operations at the Thebarton site.

In May 2012 the company announced that Teledyne-Mattituck Services, which was initially renamed Mattituck Services, would be closed and the operations consolidated into Continental's Fairhope, Alabama facility.