San Miguel Essay

SAN MIGULE ARCANGEL The San Miguel Arcangel is unique among the twenty one Spanish missions of California. San Miguel Arcangel was the sixteen of twenty one missions and there by shorten the long distance between the San Antoino and San Luis Obispo missions. In 1806, many of the mission building and all of the supplies destroyed by fire. Mission San Miguel Arcangel is named after Saint Michael the Archargel. San Miguel is just south of San Fransico. The quite mission stand as a reminder of Spanish efforts to colonize the land that is the state of California today. Next to this church is a short wall with several entrances. Before this mission was found, many America Indian already lived there in small village. I believe San Miguel was so interesting to everyone. San Miguel was found in 1797 by

Mission San Miguel Arcangel was found twenty eight years after the first mission. The main source of water for this church was the nearly Salinas River. Fray Lasuen founded Mission San Arcangel. Fray Lasuen were the second president of the California Missions. The other site of this church was also near a large Salinan village called Cholam. Fray Sitiar and a friar named Fray Antonio de la Concepcion Horra were the first missionaries at Mission San Miguel Arcangel. Although all of California mission shared similar features, each one including San Miguel had its own special architecture. This church was one hundred and forty four feet long, twenty seven feet wide; forty feet high at the highest point. The walls six feet thick. The church