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Volume 22, Number 7 ~ Monday, February 17, 2014 (No. 999)
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Texas Photo Pictorial
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña
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Photos by Trina DeConcini
From Las Misinoes
Old Spanish Missions of the Archdiocese of San Antonio
A joint partnership with the National Park Service of the United
States Department of the Interior
The Old Spanish Missions of San Antonio are a chain of five
colonial era compounds
located in a southern line from the center of downtown San
Antonio to the southern edge of the
city. They were established in the 18th Century as an outreach
of the Spanish Government and
the Catholic Church. The Franciscan Fathers founded each mission
to evangelize the regional
natives, teach them skills to help them adopt to Spanish ways,
and minister to their needs.
Additionally, the effort was to make them active citizens of the
Spanish province of Tejas.
Military forces were often located in the vicinity of each
mission to offer protection.
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Four of the five original missions still function as active
Catholic parish Churches. They
serve both a stable population of parish members as well as many
visitors who attend worship
services. These are Concepcion, San Jose, San Juan and Espada.
They are operated by the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio as the Old Spanish
Missions, Inc., an umbrella
non-profit organization to provide for their care. The
Archbishop of San Antonio appoints the
Director of the Old Spanish Missions, who is responsible for the
maintenance and restoration
of the mission churches.
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San Antonio de Valero, known as the Alamo, isowned by the State
of Texas and operated by theDaughters of the Republic of Texas. It
does notfunction as an active parish church and is not part ofthe
Old Spanish Missions, Inc.
Today the National Park Service operates the San
Antonio Missions National Historical Park in
collaboration with the Archdiocese. The Park Service is
responsible for all the secular elements of the four
compounds, including buildings, landscape and visitor
centers. The Archdiocese continues to care solely for the
church buildings.
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña
Founded by Franciscan friars, this is the best preserved of the
Texas missions. It was
established in 1716 as Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción
de los Hainais in East Texas.
Originally meant to be a base for converting the Hasinai, a
large confederation of
Caddo-speaking Native Americans located between the Sabine and
Trinity rivers in eastern
Texas, the mission was moved in 1731 to San Antonio. After its
relocation most of the people
in the mission were Pajalats, a Native American group who lived
near San Antonio.
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Trina DeConcini isa nurse and free-lance photographerwho lives
in Austin.
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