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Father Junipero: History.—The city's heritage is commemorated in many community celebrations. Santa Barbara Mission is one of the finest examples of mission architecture and historical significance. It was founded in 1786 by the immediate successor to Father Junipero Serra, with the present building dating from 1815. The first white man to visit the city's site was the Spanish navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo in 1542. In 1782, the viceroy of Mexico sent a group of men here to found a presidio or fortified settlement.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, san wonka-pe-stra'no, village and mission, California, 60 miles south of Los Angeles. The village grew up around the mission in the late 18th century and once declared war on Mexico because of harsh treatment of Indians by Mexican officials. Pop. (1950) 758.
The mission was dedicated by Father Junipero Serra in 1776 and named for St. John of Capis-trano, the Crusader. Construction was completed in 1806. Built in the form of a cross 180 by 90 feet, the church was once one of the highest triumphs of California mission architecture, with seven domes and a tall campanario or belfry that could be seen for 10 miles.
RIDERS TO THE SEA, by John Milling- j ton Synge, is the most nearly perfect trapf!- * in one act in modern literature. The very sir pie plot is based not on the traditional confi:: of human wills but on the hopeless struggle.: man against the impersonal but relentless cruei; of the sea. It has taken from Maurya fouroi her six sons, their father, and their father's father. |
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