Its construction in 1889, of the present brick gothic church, marked the transition from Mission Santa Cruz to Holy Cross Parish.

and now it is the core of Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, with seven rooms of exhibits and multimedia presentations on the native Ohlone and Yokuts peoples, local families and church ...

Santa Cruz mission vandal left a note A vandal who covered the Santa Cruz Holy Cross Church in spray paint and destroyed a priceless piece of history left behind two notes with an anti-church message.

Historic records proved it more than a rumor. The Santa Cruz Mission was demolished in 1885 to make room for Holy Cross Church on High Street. In the process, workmen dug up more than 2,400 bodies ...

SANTA CRUZ — Father Joel Miller ... study and meal put on volunteers — to move from the Elm Street Mission to his church in June 2008, arrests and citations for loitering, drug dealing ...

The dynamite blast at Santa Cruz Catholic Church was so powerful that it blew ... including the wall around Mission San Xavier del Bac. One of Santa Cruz's signatures is its tall bell tower ...

A record number of Americans are expected to visit Japan this summer, but for those who can’t, the annual Japanese Cultural ...

SANTA CRUZ (KCBS) – Police in Santa Cruz are ... items that were damaged that date back to the creation of the mission and the church that are a few hundred years old and cannot be replaced ...

The march on Wednesday evening was concentrated near Emmet and High streets in the area of Mission Plaza Park and Holy Cross Church. According to Santa Cruz police, someone wrote multiple slogans ...

And in Santa Cruz, believers in both ... After the mission was destroyed by earthquakes in the mid-1800s, construction began on a new church in the late 1880s, prompting the relocation of many ...

Welcome to the spiritual and historic heart of Santa Clara University Historic Mission Santa Clara is a consecrated Roman Catholic church that sits at the heart of Santa Clara University’s campus.

First stop: Santa Cruz Mission. The mission, founded in 1791, was the 12th in the California chain. The 1931 building is a smaller replica of the original church, but it still managed to evoke the ...