The adobe Mission San Miguel Arcangel is the oldest and most important ... The work, as in all the missions, was done mostly by Indian people, who still venerate the old mission.

SAN MIGUEL, Calif. (CN) — In a small dirt graveyard next to the old mission, two shovels and a bow rake lean against the sacristy wall. There are a few weathered tombstones sprinkled throughout the ...

John Fowler, project manager for the Friends of Mission San Miguel, a nonprofit group, said $15 million was raised to make repairs. Close to $1.5 million came from the California Missions Foundation.

WHILE OPPOSING FACTIONS carve their positions in stone, the cracked adobe walls of Mission San Miguel Arcangel gingerly ... California’s missions are among those religious sites whose historic ...

Walls pulled apart, statues broke into pieces and a crack appeared that runs the length of the church, but the state’s most dilapidated mission, San Miguel Arcangel in Central California ...

during a period of mission “secularization,” or ownership of the missions by private parties, Mission San Miguel was the residence of William Reed and his family. It was the start of the Gold ...

“It’s part of the history of our whole country.” Nestled in a remote valley, Mission San Miguel was the 16th of 21 missions built between 1769 and 1823 in a chain that stretches 600 miles ...

This white paper presents the results of an aerial survey of the historic San Miguel Mission site in California, conducted using the IF800 Tomcat drone equipped with a Sony ILX-LR1 camera and a 35 mm ...

The Monterey Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church celebrated the rebuilding of Mission San Miguel Arcángel on Friday ... founded all of California’s missions.

The Mission Museum features a newly curated exhibit, “Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, 1771-1900: Natives, Missionaries, and the Birth of Catholicism in Los Angeles.” Get top local stories in ...

In September 2009, Mission San Miguel reopened to the public. For many of us, this event was nothing less than a miracle. After all, St. Michael the Arcangel, the Mission’s patron, fought ...