Mission San Buenaventura
The missions of California were big things in California’s history. The building of the missions caused lots of events to happen in California. The missions started the small, to very large populations of California.
Mission Facts
The Mission San Buenaventura is the 9th mission in the chain of missions. ( The chain of missions is the 21 Spanish missions along the coast of California from San Diego to San Francisco. ) The mission was supposed to be 3rd, then delayed for 13 years.
Mission San Buenaventura is located along the Coast of Southern California in the city we now know as Ventura, California.
Mission San Buenaventura was built by water to attract merchant ships. ( San Buenaventura is also known
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as “The Mission by the Sea.” ) The mission was named after Saint Bonaventure. It is also located there because it would be a 1-day horseback trip from the previous mission to the next.09099999 Mission San Buenaventura was established by Father Junipero Serra ( recently promoted to Saint Junipero Serra ) on March 31st, 1782, or Easter Sunday. The mission was established to claim the land for Spain to claim the land. (California) Life on the Mission There were lots of people that lived on the mission.
The Chumash Indians lived near when the Franciscan order of priests/padres came to California to build the mission. There were also Spanish soldiers that lived on the mission.
The Chumash Indian men were hard - workers on the mission. They had to learn Christianity and how to read, write, and speak Spanish. The men also learned how to do leatherwork, woodworking ( The making of things made out of wood ) , and blacksmithing. ( Blacksmithing is the use of a hammer and an anvil to make tools like nails, screws, and horseshoes. ) Adobe tiles and bricks were also made for building. ( Adobe is a mixture of mud, clay, straw, and sometimes animal manure. )
The Chumash women were in charge of many chores on the mission. They’re even sometimes more busy than the men. They were supposed to cook food, wash clothing in the lavenderia, (a pit made of bricks to pour water in, then wash clothes.) and do basket and blanket weaving. The Chumash women also made candles and soap with tallow or lard. ( Tallow is melted cow fat and lard is melted pig fat. ) Both men and women did farming and animal raising. They raised grapes for wine, barley, oats, and olives for olive
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oil. Even the Chumash children had jobs on the mission.
They helped the women weave baskets and blankets. The children also kept the birds and animals away from crops and wet adobe. Like the men and women, they also had to learn Spanish and Christianity.
A typical mission day might have looked like this:
Sunrise - Everyone wakes up and went to the mission church to sing and pray.
1 hour later - A bell is rung for breakfast.
7 A.M. - A bell was rung to send Indians to work.
12 P.M. (noon) - 2 P.M. - Indians ate their meal and had rest, or siesta.
2 P.M. - Everyone went back to
work. 5 P.M. - The friars held prayers and devotions. 6 P.M. - Supper, then free time. 8 P.M. - Bedtime for women. 9 P.M. - Bedtime for men. There were also many animals on the mission. There were horses, for transportation, and sheep, for wool to make blankets and clothes. Pigs were used for meat and fat for lard. Cows had many uses such as milk, leather, meat, and fat for tallow. The Mission Today Mission San Buenaventura is still a busy mission today. Even though, it still had many natural disasters. In 1793, a fire burned down one of the mission’s churches. Then, in 1812 an earthquake and a tsunami hit and it severely damaged the mission. It was then rebuilt in the later months of 1812. In 1834 - 1836, all of the missions closed, then later sold to private citizens. Mission San Buenaventura was sold in 1845, then sold back to government. In 1949, it was renovated to make it look like it does today. Mission San Buenaventura is still being used as a church and a school. ( The mission’s school name is The Holy Cross School. ) The mission is also used for a museum and a gift shop. The mission uses the church for Mass and to hold prayers. The mission is used recently and to go for field trips and just for fun.
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