This guide opens with the background of the Lower California missions and the founding work of Padre Junípero Serra and his successor Fermín Lasuén. It then describes the native peoples before and under the padres and the secularization that ruined the missions, before visiting them one by one, from San Diego de Alcalá and San Carlos Borromeo to San Antonio de Padua.
A sympathetic companion for travellers to the California missions and students of the state’s Spanish past. Download the free EPUB.