The mission also was a location for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 ... In 1957, The Times wrote about Mission San Juan Bautista’s Father Arroyo de la Cuesta who learned 13 Native American dialects.

This mission, operated by the Catholic Church, is at the heart of the sleepy town of San Juan Bautista (population 1,862) and faces a broad, grassy plaza, part of San Juan Bautista State Historic ...

THAT MEANS THE SUNRISE CREATED A RARE PHENOMENON CALLED áILLUMINATIONá. AT MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA... A SHAFT OF LIGHT SHINED PERFECTLY THROUGH THE ENTRANCE OF THE CHAPEL AND ILLUMINATED THE ...

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 ...

The mission was important to San Antonio history as Governor Martin de Alarcón launched his founding expedition of the Alamo City in 1718 from San Juan Bautista and in 1731 soldiers from the ...

2004-02-22 04:00:00 PDT San Juan Bautista, San Benito County-- "The other half of this building's moving north, while this half's just sitting still," says Ralph Hurd, assistant winemaker at ...

Vaquero Heritage Days this Friday and Saturday at the San Juan Bautista Mission celebrate not just the cowboy but the culture. The lifestyle of California”s first cowboys was certainly forged in ...

The rustic town of San Juan Bautista and its historic Spanish mission, which dates back to 1797 and gained international fame in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film “Vertigo,” is flanked by rolling ...

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 ...

Founded in 1797, the mission was named for St. John the Baptist. The fifteenth in a chain of 21 California missions founded by Father Junipero Serra, San Juan Bautista’s mission is the largest ...