Everything about Mission San Miguel Arc Ngel totally explained
» Another mission bearing the name San Miguel Arcángel is the Misión San Miguel Arcángel de la Frontera in Baja California.
Mission San Miguel Arcángel was founded on
July 25,
1797 by the
Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of
Salinan Indians that inhabited the area.
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. 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. 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. 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 peoples.
History
Father Presidente Fermin Francisco de Lasuen founded the mission on July 25, 1797, making it the sixteenth
California mission. Its location between
Mission San Luis Obispo and
Mission San Antonio de Padua provided a stop on the trip that had previously taken two days.
Most of the mission burned, while still being developed, in 1806. It was rebuilt within a year., leaving the Mission vacant for a period of time. The Mission was a stopping place for miners coming from
Los Angeles to
San Francisco, and was consequently was used as a saloon, dance hall, storeroom and living quarters.
In 1859,
President Buchanan returned the Mission to the Church.
Features
- The Mission Arcade, a series of 12 arches, is original. The variety of shapes and sizes was planned
- The first chapel on the site was replaced within a year of its construction by a larger adobe chapel, which burned in the 1806 fire.
- The current mission church was built between 1816 and 1818. It is 144 long, 27 feet wide, and 40 feet high.
- The cemetery adjacent to the church holds the remains of 2,249 Native Americans listed in the Mission's burial records.
- The painted walls inside the church are the original artwork by artist Esteban Munras and other Salinan artists.
Mission bells
Bells were vitally important to daily life at any mission. The bells were rung at mealtimes, to call the Mission residents to work and to religious services, during births and funerals, to signal the approach of a ship or returning missionary, and at other times; novices were instructed in the intricate rituals associated with the ringing the mission bells.
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