Other missions bearing the name San Juan Bautista include the Misión San Juan Bautista Malibat (Misión Liguí) in Baja California Sur and the Misión San Juan Bautista in Coahuila, Mexico. Other missions bearing the name San Juan Bautista include the Mission San Juan Bautista in California and the Misión San Juan Bautista Baja California Sur (pron BAH-hah kahl'-ee-FORE-nyah SOOR is one of the 31 States of Mexico. The Spanish missions in Mexico are a series of Religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans Jesuits, Augustinians Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza is one of Mexico 's 31 component states. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America.

Mission San Juan Bautista

A view of the restored Mission San Juan Bautista and its added three-bell campanario ("bell wall") in 2004. Two of the bells were salvaged from the original chime, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Location	San Juan Bautista, California
Name as Founded	La Misión del Glorios Precursor de Jesu Cristo, Nuestro Señor San Juan Bautista [1]
English Translation	The Mission of Saint John the Baptist
Patron	Saint John the Baptist [2]
Nickname(s)	"Mission of Music" [3]
Founding Date	June 24, 1797 [4]
Founding Priest(s)	Father Fermín Lasuén [5]
Founding Order	Fifteenth [2]
Military District	Third [6]
Native Tribe(s) Spanish Name(s)	Mutsun, Yokuts Costeño
Native Place Name(s)	Popeloutchom [7]
Baptisms	4,106 [8]
Marriages	1,003 [8]
Burials	2,854 [8]
Secularized	1835 [2]
Returned to the Church	1859 [2]
Governing Body	Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey
Current Use	Parish Church
Coordinates	36°50′42.3″N, 121°32′9.2″W
California Historical Landmark	#195
Web Site	http://www.oldmissionsjb.org/

Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797 at the present-day location of San Juan Bautista, California. San Juan Bautista ( Spanish: Saint John the Baptist) is a city in San Benito County, California, United States. The patron saint of a particular group of people is a Saint who would protect and 'love' the group and its members Saint John the Baptist ( heb. Jochanan ben Sacharja, arab. يحيى Yaḥyā or يوحنا Yūḥanna, aram. Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Father Padre Fermín Francisco de Lasuén de Arasqueta ( June 7 1736 &ndash June 26 1803) was a Spanish Missionary to The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of Religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States Mutsun is a name of one sub-group of the indigenous Ohlone people of California, as well as the name of the language they spoke The Yokuts (also known as Mariposans) are an Ethnic group of Native Americans that live in central and northern California. In Christianity, baptism ( Greek, "immersing" "performing Ablutions " is the ritual act with the use of water by which one is admitted Secularization or secularisation generally refers to the process of transformation by which a Society migrates from close identification with religious institutions The Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California ( Latin: Dioecesis Montereyensis in California) is an ecclesiastical territory or Diocese California Historical Landmarks (CHLs are buildings structures sites or places in the state of California that have been determined to have statewide historical Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common San Juan Bautista ( Spanish: Saint John the Baptist) is a city in San Benito County, California, United States. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form. Jose Castro House in San Juan Bautista California, USA, is a historic adobe home built by José Castro, Commandant General of Northern California The Ohlone, the original residents of the valley, were converted and brought to live at the Mission, followed by Yokuts from the Central Valley. The Ohlone people also known as the Costanoan and as the Muwekma, are the indigenous people of Northern California who have lived in the The Yokuts (also known as Mariposans) are an Ethnic group of Native Americans that live in central and northern California. Mission San Juan Bautista has served mass daily since 1797.

Precontact

The current prevailing theory postulates that Paleo-Indians entered the Americas from Asia via a land bridge called "Beringia" that connected eastern Siberia with present-day Alaska (when sea levels were significantly lower, due to widespread glaciation) between about 15,000 to 35,000 years ago. Paleo-Indians or Paleo-Americans were the ancient peoples of the Americas who were present at the end of the last Ice Age. The Bering land bridge was a Land bridge roughly 1000 miles (1600 km north to south at its greatest extent which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving Alaska ( Аляска Alyaska) is a state in the United States of America, in the northwest of the North American continent The remains of Arlington Springs Man on Santa Rosa Island are among the traces of a very early habitation in California, dated to the last ice age (Wisconsin glaciation) about 13,000 years ago. Arlington Springs Man is the name given a set of human remains discovered on an island off the coast of California Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53195 acres (215 An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the Temperature of the Earth 's surface and atmosphere resulting in an expansion of continental Ice sheets "Last glacial" redirects here For the period of maximum glacier extent during this time see Last Glacial Maximum The last glacial period The first humans are therefore thought to have made their homes among the southern valleys of California's coastal mountain ranges some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago; the earliest of these people are known only from archaeological evidence. ^[9] The cultural impacts resulting from climactic changes and other natural events during this broad expanse of time were negligible; conversely, European contact was a momentous event, which profoundly affected California's native people. ^[10]

History

Father Pedro Estévan Tápis (who had a special talent for music) joined Father de la Cuesta at Mission San Juan Bautista in 1815 to teach singing to the Indians. Father Pedro Estévan Tápis ( August 25 1754 &ndash November 3 1825) was a Spanish Missionary to The Americas He created a system using colors for different types of music notes which made it easier for the novices to follow. His choir of Native American boys performed for many visitors, earning the San Juan Bautista Mission the nickname "the Mission of Music. " Two of his handwritten choir books are preserved at the San Juan Bautista Museum. When Father Tapis died in 1825 he was buried on the Mission grounds. The town of San Juan Bautista, which grew up around the Mission, expanded rapidly during the California Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today. The California Gold Rush (1848&ndash1855 began on January 24 1848 when Gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California The structures suffered extensive damage in the earthquakes of 1800 and 1906; the Mission was restored initially 1884, and then again in 1949 with funding from the Hearst Foundation, and today continues to serve as a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey. An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth 's crust that creates Seismic waves Earthquakes are recorded with a Seismometer The Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California ( Latin: Dioecesis Montereyensis in California) is an ecclesiastical territory or Diocese

The Mission and its grounds were featured prominently in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 Vertigo ( is a Psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak and featuring Barbara Associate producer Herbert Coleman's daughter Judy Lanini suggested the Mission to Hitchcock as a filming location. A steeple, added sometime after the Mission's original construction and secularization had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a "bell tower" using scale models, matte paintings, and trick photography at the Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. The Mission was built on the San Andreas Fault and has suffered damage from numerous earthquakes over the years, but it has never been demolished. The San Andreas Fault is a geologic Transform fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1300 km through California in the United States. An unpaved stretch of the original El Camino Real, just east of the Mission, lies on a fault scarp. El Camino Real ( Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile Highways linking the various ^[11]

Notes

A photograph of Mission San Juan Bautista taken between 1880 and 1910. The steeple (far right), constructed after the Mission was secularized, was subsequently destroyed in a fire.

References

• Bennett, John E. (February 1897b). "Should the California Missions Be Preserved? - Part II". Overland Monthly XXIX (170): 150-161.  
• Forbes, Alexander (1839). California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Smith, Elder and Co. , Cornhill, London.  
• Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar (eds. ) (2007). California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0-759-10872-2.  
• Krell, Dorothy (ed. ) (1979). The California Missions: A Pictorial History. Sunset Publishing Corporation, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-376-05172-8.  
• Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc. , Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5.  

Actor James Stewart stands on the ledge of Mission San Juan Bautista's "bell tower" at the conclusion of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. James Maitland Stewart (20 May 1908 – 2 July 1997 popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an American Film and stage Actor Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 Vertigo ( is a Psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak and featuring Barbara The Mission didn't actually have a bell tower, so one was constructed on the Paramount backlot for the film. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. A backlot is an area behind or adjoining a Movie studio with space to build or with permanent exterior sets for outdoor scenes in motion picture and/or

• Levy, Richard. (1978). in William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer: Handbook of North American Indians. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. ISBN 0-16-004578-9 / 0160045754, page 486.  
• Milliken, Randall (1995). A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769-1910. Ballena Press Publication, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-87919-132-5.  
• Paddison, Joshua (ed. ) (1999). A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 1-890771-13-9.  
• Ruscin, Terry (1999). Mission Memoirs. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-932653-30-8.  
• Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8.  

See also

• USNS Mission San Juan (AO-126) — a Buenaventura Class fleet oiler built during World War II. Service history Mission San Juan was laid down 30 July 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by Marine Ship Corporation Sausalito Operational history SS Mission Buenaventura was laid down 29 March 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract by Marinship Corporation, History The technology of oil transportation has evolved alongside the oil industry World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
• Rancho San Justo
• Teatro Campesino

External links

• Early photographs, sketches, land surveys of Mission San Juan Bautista, via Calisphere, California Digital Library
• Vertigo at the Internet Movie Database