It was the third peaceful prayer and protest this year at a California mission. San Juan Bautista is the 15th of 21 in a system started under Serra that, his critics say, enslaved and brutalized ...

Mission San Juan Bautista in San Bento County has received more than $1 million to help keep the historic site open. The mission received $750,000 from the National Parks Service and a matching ...

Hidden in the padres’ 200-year-old scrawlings at ... Toypurina died and was buried at Mission San Juan Bautista on May 22, 1799, near Carmel. Today, a stone mound like one the Gabrielinos ...

Few symbols in California are as ubiquitous as the roadside markers shaped like mission bells that flank ... people who were taken to Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz along California ...