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THE STORY
OF
P
ISIOK
AN FtlUAhJ
IJQlAFISTRANO
B Y
H. BEDFORD-JONES
Santa Barbara
'TKirti^ copies Kand-printed lt>j> tne
Auft\or & distributed privatel^^
A man x}*t fanwui according a> ha
kad liftad up axat upon iha ihick
treM .
But noV
riter Kas endeavored herein to ex-
press more than bare fact* •. to expresf
something of the inner Vision of this
place -• something of the spirituality yet
lingering upon the rain-streaked walls and
the crumbling arches.
^This 'Jolume is but ore man's -Viewpoint .
Its on\^ ambition is an ir*erpretation of
the strange inJividualit^ ich clings to
these ruins toda]? .
n\\e "Man" of tl-o book has no know-
ledge of ''i: writin, , nor would he per-
haps appro .'rf the introduction of personal
elements -- but what matter? His labor
has put beauty' and utili^? in the stead of
ruin and neglect; the world owes him a
meed of appreciation . He desires it not ,
yet it will come to him as inevitably? as
will a Higher appreciation .
To him I owe thinks for assistance and
information , nor could I find fitter dedi-
cation than to ascribe and inscribe this
Volume to
St . John O'Sullivan
Genio Loci
I:
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O N T E N T S
I THE ADOBE
II THE K
STOWE
III THE HIGH BELLS
IV THE COYOTE
V THE MAN
©IhE [glDOBE
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From the ear La-
suen buried tKe two mission bells and
fied.
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In the following year came Padre
Serra the Fundator in person, and re-
estaWisKed tKe work. He chose a ne^J
and better site, between the Trabuco
and San Juan creeks, within sight of
the sea ; and consecrated this founda-
tion November i , 1776 . 'Then he
departed and the work was taken up
b^ his helpers — Padres Mugartegui
am
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murno .
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HO monaster)) was this place, no
secludt^ spot for meditation and
repose; but a school of industrial and
manual training where the Indians were
taught to knov? God, and to serve
Him in love. Here was preached the
mysterp of service -- to borrow honest
Will Comfort's phrase; the mysten? of
creative labor, of honest? in one's han-
diwork. TKe first result of this was
the adobe .
Adobe bricks are excellent things
in themselves, but the^) must be pro-
tected from the rains. In a countr?
where ever? scrap of material must be
formed from the ra^ ear^h-givings , such
protection means labor. The padres
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labored; tlieir mission was built from
adobe and tiles, to>MKide and mortar,
reeds and boulders .
In tKe Canada del Omo , "little
canon of tke oven," just nor4i of the
mission ruins, tKe remains of the kilns
maj) still be seen. Here were made
tiles of man>> sKapes, but all of the
same tender red ,
Some were square , and these were
used to floor the corridors; some were
oblong , and these went to build the
columns and arches , and to roof them ;
some were regular roofing tiles , curved
and fitted to run water. All ma;p be
seen in service to this dap .
E F O R E the actual building , all
things had to be shown to the
builders . ^These neophytes , as the In-
dian converts were termed , learned to
use carts and oxen . to make tiles , to
transform into cement and mortar the
limestone, so laboriously) fetched twelve
miles over the hills .
Meantime , food had to be won
from the carfh and the necessities of
^ifc provided . Open ditches and tiled
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conduits were run from the streams,
forming an extensive irrigation system.
Gardens, orcKards, and vineyards were
laid out and the neopKytes were sKown
hovJ to care for tKem. EacK da:? the
advantages of tKis site cKosen h^ ^r«9
Serra became more evident.
Gradually! tKe adobe walls went
up; and, rising, tKej? enclosed work-
sKops. NeopKyte carpenters Kewed out
ceiling-rafte.. of sycamore beams , brought
from tKe Kills twen^? miles awa^ , and
carved tKe quaintlj^ mortised door and
windoBJ frames, ^e smitK^^ produced
nails, locks, Kinges and tools.
Less skilled workers brougKt tules ,
reeds from tKe creek-beds, and cut up
rawKide. Tules were laid upon tKe
rafters, bound down and made fast
wi{K rawKide, and plastered over. In
tKis fasKion were made ceilings.
Da3> bj) da9 tKe dried adobes took
KigKer form, frmer sKape; tKe walls
were from two to seven feet tKick .
TKe arcKes rose around a patio of an
acre in area, eacK side b-ing about
two Kundred feet in leng4i, but no
two sides being exactly' parallel.
Separated from tKe arcKes Irp a
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roofc the store- houses , school, and
at the end , tho quarters and arched
bell of the laz^ garrison .
Vmj>- - o«_ irds and gardens
flourished ' 1^ • ^Thousands of cattle
roamed th'. ills, and the San Juan
horses were famcu? in the land .' HThe
mission had outlying rancherias , settle-
ments of San Ju.inefios who sa^g? to the
crops and cattle •- and who doubled
the talents in their keeping .
No more cla>> Lricks \aS baking
in the sun .
||r\| U R I N G those twentp years of
BSm service and grow^ , a -Oision nan
been in the forming .
AH that could be done wifli adcbe,
had been done. Massive wells, archef.
all manner of structures — these were
finished . But already the padres had
begun to look ahead . Not theirs was
the abili^ to rest content wi{h having
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clone enough . Men never do enough
for God .
Tweii^ miles awajl in the moun-
tains were sycamores . Near the Mision
Vieja, Fra]? Lasuen's old foundation sjx
mil?8 up »he canon , was a fne store
of sandstone. Twelve miles distant was
limestone. At the ocean shore were
boulders and sand .
Wi4\ the close of the year 1796,
the padres sn^v? their vision clearly) .
^Thej' began to make diamond shaped
tiles , and sent for a stone-mason .
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Out of fixe quarr^ cut and laid ,
Brovln Kands brought me , unafraid ;
Carved me 'vJiiK sj^mboU that Had no name ,
Set me to Hold a KigK arcK-frame .
Vanished are 4ie^ x^iAi all their race
Yet here d'Well I in m;p given place ;
Washed of Aie rain, burnt of the sun,
Waiting vJith God till the years be done .
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THE KEYSTONE
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! O D has given us weal^i • and
workmen and eager Hearts. Ncb?
let us put our talents to account in
His service ! "
In this spirit the two mission fa-
thers obtained their stone-mason and set
to work on a nine-years* contract wi4i
God .
On Februarj? 2 , 1797 , the task
was begun. Hlxis was the Vision
a great church all of stone, the grand-
est house of worship in the Califomias .
Some of the Baja California churches
were marvelous things, carven and
dighted wi4\ precious gifts; but thej?
were small. OThis was to be large,
beautiful, splendid in its solemnity and
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grandeur .
^Thep laid it out in tKe form of a
Latin cross, 175 hS 80 feet, ^e walls
v?ere to be tv?o yards thick, all of stone
and cement; tKe roof was to be formed
hS se-Oen bo-Oedas, or domes; the entire
building was to be one solid mass of pure
masonr? .
So the work began.
E E K after week , mon^i after monfli ,
0)
gad year after :?ear , the purpled hills
looked down upon moving fles of men,
women and children .
Carretas , or ox-carts of two wheels ,
formed a constant line between the nei)?
mission and the Mision Vieja , where \aS
the sandstone quarries; but not carretas
alone. Hhe San Juanenos carried stones
on their heads; e^en the children came
bearing stones — twelve miles back and
for^ , daj^ after dap and year after year .
Although the neophytes were numbered
b>> the hundreds , the walls were six feet
thick .
In the workshops was redoubled toil
and labor. TKe weavers, oil and wine
makers , cordwainers , clothiers and candle-
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fashioners must continue work as usual .
All regular business must go on, for the
mission was self-supporting.
Out in the sun stood the stone-mason
wi4i Kis neophyte pupils, teaching these
apprentices the myster? of the keystone,
and the carding thereof. Hl^e keystones
of the tiled arches had been tiles. No^
this arch-ke3? took on ner" meaning and
importance .
From the kilns came the tiies , dia-
mond shaped , for the flooring of the ne^
church alone. Mon4» h-p mon^h uprose
the walls , as endless processions wended
in , some from the quarries , some from
the ocean , othersome from the mountains
or limestone cliffs. Concrete was mixed
and laid. Slowly? the massive walls drev?
nearer to heaven .
NID the spirit of it all la>> in the
keystones and lintels, the cornices
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and capitals . Wi^ time , the apprentices
became master masons ; beneath their hands
the rough ashlars were perfected, and in
turn these perfect ashlars grevO to liOing
jewels of their craft.
For thej) car?ed these , not wifh em-
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blems of the fai4\ , but \vi4i strange ^oxO-
ing symbols deeply cKiseled and carefully
balanced . In those symbols was something
of the pagan , something which the good
padres assuredly) did not inspire . Perhaps
the inspiration ceme from the qui-Oering,
sunlight, the rounded hills, the far blue
line o he ocean ,
rrhe door lintels, earned in conser-
"Oati-Oe cruciform designs, were strikingly)
different and in their waj) no less beauti-
ful.
But in the keystones were sermons .
aHREE years passed, and the cen-
tur? ended wi4\ the work onl]? one
third completed. Still the hundreds of
laborers went about their tasks , while the
padres planned and directed , yet without
neglecting their spiritual trestle-boards .
Gone was the stonemason, lea^>ing
a greater genius than his own wi^ the
pupils of his teaching . The bluish gre:?
sandstone still came from the quarr? , the
careers still wrought wi^ the slo^ patience
of their race . Neither gaud>) nor baroque
was their work; thej) had learned temp-
erance, prudence, fortitude and justice.
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tK«se entering largel]^ into their lalx>r .
AnotKer three years crept on. Frajl
Vicente Fuster went the wa]? of all flesh
and the vacancy? was filled bi? one Jose
Faura . What mattered names? Qliese
men lived for the salvation of souls ,
and to the glor? of God .
Somewhere within the walls rests
Brother Vicente , his grave unknown ,
unmarked ; yet his menorj? is more en-
during then hrorze .
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LOWLY the great edifice drexO
upward . Olie loft? campanile began
to rise — up and up , ever climbing
skyward , until it could be discerned for
ten miles ; the sound of its high bellf-
carried even farther .
Other three years passed , but nov?
more swiftl]? . HT^e floor was laid , the
carven doors and windows were placed ,
the lai.t capital and column were set in
their concrete beds , the plaster was
drawn over the rough walls, and the
stone-chips were cleared from the patio ■
Not yet was the task completed ,
however. Remained some delicate gild-
ing and tinting wi^ soft ochres and
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tKe tender sKeen of copper-ground sKip's
paint, ^e dull colorings blended most
exquisitely; wifK the deep red of the
tiles, tKe creamy) white of the plaster,
until the high-towering transept and
sanctuary) v^ere gorgeous in soft harmony .
It was finished .
aO W came a splendid and not
able companj> wending unto t'.ie
Mision San Juen Capistrano.
Came Don Jose Juaquin de Arrell-
aga, bringing his ofiicers and soldiers
from all the presidios; he was gover-
nor of the province and a very wordiy
gentleman. Came Frny Esteoan Tapis,
president of the missions. Came many
brethren of the Order from their scatt-
ered posts: San Gabriel Archangel, San
Luis Re^ de Francia, Santa Barbara,
and others. Came neophytes from the
neirihbor missions, wi{h Spaniards and
half breeds, in great numbers.
To receive them were the builders,
the San Juanenos; and Padres Faura
and Santiago, whose labors had brought
to completion tnis work.
^Tlius at last was the great edifice
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consecrated; •nd, save to the Supreme
Architect, tKere was no cKurcK debt.
TKe date was September 7, 1806;
of tKe work tke ninib year.
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HE [nllGH [Q]ELLS
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Unto tk« flk:;
Tower w« afar ,
Calling on high ,
Calling man nigh —
Nigh unto prayar .
O^ar tha worn
Daaart-Iand's glara,
To sundrift and star
Our call is upborna,
"Come 3>e to prayar!"
E'Oer we cr^ ,
NIrOer we cease ,
"Come 5>e to prayer,
Here is God's peace!"
■.'7Erjn?'z.^asiS:mr^'- ''.?s.Tnau:.-n»cT j>ir'-w*; ir-"i-'i>* -p^nsrr
THE HIGH BELLS
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HI TALLY important to the work
of the mission , and symbolic to In-
dian Hearts of all for which the mission
stood, were its bells.
n\\e dail;? regime , in fact the entire
mission life, was under the regulation of
the bells . Meals , worship , laboi — for
each occupation of brethren and neophy-
tes the bells were struck . Was ru>t each
act a service of God ?
Todaj> , those bells , four in number ,
hang in a lovt ^all; the largest is dated
1796 , and its inscription is in honor of
Padres Fuster and Santiago. Next in
size is that holding a bold proclamation:
" Ruelas made me , and m:i^ name is San
Juan , 1796 ."
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WKo was this Ruelas? Wc do not
kno^ . ^Tne one man wKo left His name
graven upon this structure, He alone Has
been totall>l forgotten.
niwse two bells ma^^ Kave been re-
cast from those buried in 1775 \r^ Padre
Lasuen; but accordirtg to local traditions
the buried bells were never found.
Dated "San Antonio, 1804" and
"San Rafael , 1804" , the two smaller bells
tKat bang Here were evidently' sent from
other missions to enrich the campanile of
the great net? church.
SA R S H and strident , the bells rang
afar, clanging bir^ and marriage,
sorro'v? and toil , worship and dea4i . So
high stood the campanile that it could be
seen from Los Alisos , ten miles distant .
And for six years the high bells swung
there, until the Master's hand touched
upon them .
The builders of the church depart-
ed, and in their places walked Padres
Francisco Sufier and Josef Barona — men
sent hither to meet heart-rending ferial
days , and one of them destined to suffer
at the hands of evil men .
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December 8, i8ia, came and w«nt
again . For ut wKo look back upon a
vanitkcd era , it is • da]^ of questioning.
It was the feast of the Immaculate
Conception .
SH E first mass was for a^ cKance?
TKe service began. TKe tongues
of tKe bells were replaced b^) chanting;
the Indian flutists , drummers and vio-
linists lifted the voices into resounding
cadences ; Vancouver's barrel-organ piped
throatil>l .'
Candles blazed ; at the altar was
the padre, wearing the white-and-gold
chasuble which had come from Mexico
Cit? . ^ rought bjJ pious hands , sent
to some older mission , it had been
outworn and replaced and sent on , at
last reaching San Juan , still stiff and
gorgeous . And it is there no^ .
ni\e offertor^ was finished . In
the campanile two boys were ringing
the bells for second mass. Hl^e bronze
tongues wens clanging, clanging -•- why
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should it have befallen at that instant?
For of a sudden the vaulted domes
were rent asunder .
^ I T H the wave-kke motion of the
Sfia "w^alls , the doors jammed ; above ,
the roof cracked open to the blue sk^.
Although the celebrant motioned the
people toward the sacris^ door, not all
could obe>> .
From above came a rush of rubble
as the walls were ripped asunder and
the domes fell. Dust-darkness, shrieks
.... chaos . And then one tremendous
crash that drowned all else ; the proud
campanile had fallen !
Instead of burying all beneafh its
ruins , it fell awa;? from the church ,
out into the plaza . Wh>> ?
Ql F T E R two days of searching and
99 labor , fort)? bodies were recovered;
others were not recovered . Hlie padres
buried the dead , whose names maj> to
this da3> be read in the records.
Nine years in building, the church
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haa served God six yeatrs when it was
shattered . ^^e senotuarj^ and transept
•lone were unruiried , un termed , left
intact . Wk]? ?
OtKer structures suffered little; the
padres took up the dail]^ round ane\9 ,
not trying to rebuild. In after times
such efforts were made, but came to
naught. Again the mission prospered,
dealt largely in hides and grain and
cattle ; per!\aps the brethren cherished
ambitions, yet in the days of prosper-
ity that followed the earthquake, the
church was not rebuilt . Wh]? ?
^^ese quehcf we cannot answer.
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AH the nigKt is deep and still ;
Coj>ote , do -pou hear tKe fKunder grovJling ?
Stars fling silver over the hill
Where the gaunt grej^ beast is prcmJling,
Up at the stor-jlecked night-sk>) hoWling,
While men ^atch not but sleep their fill — .
O^e , o^e !
When the da'Wn comes gre}?
Coj^ote, do 3>ou hear the ^.under groWling?
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THE COYOTE
^ 1 F T E R tkese things fell evil days
^B upon the place , ind yet more evil
men
Always Had Mexico eyed greedil>l
tne rich Alta California missions, post-
ing soldiers at eaoK one and claiming
ivil autkori^i^. H^xe cKolo soldiers did
as tKe^ pleased , defymg tKc padres ,
and at San Juan t\\e-^ most grievousl:p
maltreated Padre Barona .
Also , tkese ckolos bf Kt vioes
and drunkeness among tke Indians ; no
good tking came out of Mexico . ^The
neopkytes were tkrown into tke Hands
of tke flesk and tke devil . Simple
souls were tke^ . not kard x - 'ead astra^j';
tke olden days were gone, and into
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tKeir world Kad come greed .
J^j N 1833 the missions we*-" finally)
SOB seized , and San Juan Capistrano
was the first to suffer.
The San Juanenos sav? the rule
pass into ne\i) hands ; the]? sa'vJ the
lands sold off; thej) sb'v? men casting
lots for the sacred "^Jestments ; thej' s&yS
the mission buildings desecrated , and
themselves cast adrift .
Later came smallpox and dwelt wi(h
them , so that the San Juanenos per-
ished as a people .
No^ the coyote comes into the
storp . Among the Indians was a say-
ing, part of a folk-tale net yet lost:
' Oye los truenos , coyote ?" Dost hear
the thunder, coyote? HTiere is pi{h in
the words ,
After man]? years were the mifsion
buildings, their contents partiall>) intact,
restored to their church, thrrugh the
work of Dona Ysadora Pico de Forster .
It was too late to save the neophytes
b it was not too late to save the
buildings; however, the place was for-
gotten of the world. Yet, what matter
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whetKer the world rem«mber»?
Years fled, t^pJetiJ? or more. Ser-
vices were Keld occasionally' . LooUrs
found the place ricK ; but tKeir hands
took amazingly little .
Here were statues , wrought from
Spanish woods and decked wiAi gold •
Silver candlesticks , torches , crosses and
other objects of metal were not lack-
ing. Also, rare paintings and broideries-
&
OMEHOW, down the years,
the mission held these things un-
warded , unlocked . 01\e adobe build-
ings around the patio crumbled ; earm
hid the tender red tiles ; men quarried
materials from the ruins for their own
uses . Coyotes howled in the desolate
patio ; this was thp final requiem .
But those remaining of the San
juanenos whispered : "Oye los truenos ,
coyote ?"
^TKe words held significance; net
often is Sunder heard hereabouts, and
a 4iunderstorm is rare indeed . Per-
hnps — who knows? — to the Indian
mnid it ^pified the voice and action
o'^ Dei^? . But the coyote , like the
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temple loottr, was the most despicable
of all things. "Dost hear the fliund-
er, coyote?" The saying lingered.
Within the mission were desolation
and graves , ruin and sadness , neglect
and emptiness . Yet , from time to
time , God thundered upon the hills .
God does not forget. He was
raising up a man to His work .
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He Heard . joUmn an^em n7iin
Upon the tWalloWt' Mittered criee;
nh* bare bro^n hills became to him
A fhimmer of tuit' symphonies ;
A^«7art the ciumblini; cloister-shade
An angel's Wing limned lanes of light ,
And from forgotten graves out-stra)>ed
Lot? whisperings upon ^ night.
Wiih adze and plane and rugged beam
He fell to hewing out his dream.
THE
MAN
fa
MAN came to San Juan to
die. Smitten b>l tK* white plague,
Ke was denied all Kope. Since Ke Had
but to await deaib , ^^et wisKcd to re-
main in tne Divine service , Ke wac
sent to tke abode of desolation .
I do not tKink it cccured to the
Man , or to anyone else , tKat all his
life had been sKapen toward his com-
ing here to die. God never makes
mistakes .
OThe Man, burning wifh a deep
spiritualij? , came here to die. Oni]?
forgotten graves awaited him ; onljl the
work of the Landmarks Club had saved
the mission from total destruction.
Weeds gre\0 'hculctr hsgh in the
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Kolj? places. Tourists dtfacad cver^
wall . Wi the paopla
parisK. ORva Man baKalc! hare a lifa-
work ; bacauia Ka Had this Vision Ka
did not partsK but took up tKa task .
niiroiigK wKat doubt and despair
Ka struggled , none otKer can knoi9 .
Often bis Vision seemed destroyed, as
difficulties loomed larger. EacK forward
step seemed to attain ne^ troubles.
But God never makes mistakes .
Wi? brick and
tile. He traded nstO for old, collect-
ing from tKe town and rancKes mucK
tKat was ^)aluab!e in Kis •v>ision . All
sucK tKings furtKered Kis labors.
^1 HENCE came tKe monej^ for
!^B tKis work ? From bo4a ecclesiasti-
cal and private sources , let us saS .
from God.
No Kire could buj? sucK labor as
tK» Padre gave to Kis -Oision , for Kis
remuner»«ion was not of tKe earfK .
Before Kim la>^ eterni^ for tKis task,
and tKere was no Kaste. If Ke laid
but one tile etcK daj) , and laid it
well, Ke was content.
It was tKis spirit wKicK made tKe
old world's wonders , and makes tKe
nr»7 world wonder. It is rarely found
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in this countrS^ . Once it was Kcr* .
indeed, but wi^ the dispUcemcnt of
thoroughness h^ greed, as a standard
of craftmanship, it -Vanished .
This spirit made the rugs of Pet*
sia, the Flemish buildings, the hrorze*
craft of China , the illuminations whidt
Irish monks taught the schoolmen of
Europe. Rugs, buildings, bronzes, ill*
uminations — these are made no more
in the old spirit; the^^ are made but
to perish, for their makers have no
Vision. But at San Juan Capistrane
the spirit lingers .
fi
O R years the mission wa# deso*
lata and abandoned , ^^isionless . Its
people perished and "Sandals held it at
their merc;^ . Yet the spirit of the
piKJres abode in the place where t\\e^
had sarvad; then came the Padre. In
him the old spirit revived, and the
ancient "Vision. Even? stone and cBr?-
ing and orumbling fresco cried out to
him; Adobe and Keystone and Bell
carried to him their message.
Under the spell of his "Vision, ruin
and destruction evolved into beau^ and
u
service. Nfor did He serve the dead
onl3>, for children sat at his feet and
learned . His ^as the Icgacp of human
fragments in the despised cholo, the
halfbreed, the Mexican and Indian.
Witfi sue', fragments he builded .
In him the> sa^, not the alien, but
the Padre whose soul housed -Oenera-
tion and deep kindliness, and a vision.
^lUeS answered to the vision of their
fathers .
The townfolk jeered beoause he
traded nexQ bricks for old. made nails
in the forge, left his neW doors bare
until he could get the paint used b^
the padres. As the fragments, human
and divine, upgreW beneath his hand,
the scofjiing ceased.
BND toda>> the old place is alive.
It is alive wiA its ancient beau^ ,
•liv* wi^ graves and ruins, alive -^^iA
its rebirth. Its people are not perish-
ing but are thriving. Tourist <>andals
have been turned into pa}?ing guests.
Never will the mission be restor-
ed to its pristine grandeur; and it is
better so. Mo longer are neophytes at
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Kand to work in sKop and field, no
longer do its cattle roam the Kills , no
longer does tKe land need it as a center
of industrj^ and agriculture. ^TKe land
needs it onl^p as the House of Gcd .
EacK crumbled arcK, each delioate ke^j^-
stone , bears a spiritual message .
A N Juan does not lack relics of
more materal interest --- Padre
Serra's book of the dead , a letter writ
b^^ Fra3^ Crespi before Ssn Diego was
founded , ancient silver and t?essels and
paintings .
QKe Padre, too, Kas great store
of tales and legends dra^n from tKe
Hearts of His people; and tHese He will
some da^^ , perHaps , make into a book .
He will do so •-- five, ten, twen^k^
years Hence . WHj> Hurrj? ? WHo serves
God , not man , finds a calm poise in
life ; to eacH daj^ some task , but God
sets tHe pace .
PerHaps tHis , after all , is tHe
greatest lesson .
FINIS
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Appendix A
Tradition informs us tkat among
tK« ti^pts of Korses Were:
sabino tortoisa-akall
tordillo gnS
palomino •- buff, wkitt tail
^Tka Padra Kas a mora complete list.
WKelKer these ara pural^ local names ,
I am unable to sa3^ .
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Appendix B
"Vancouver gave Father Lasuen ,
of the San Juan Capistrano Mission,
a barrel cvTtan for his church."
Smythe, Hist, of San Diego, p. 84.
I can find no other mention of this
instrument .
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Hcrt end* Hhm Stor^
of Mifion San Juan
Capistrano printed b^
hand at the Sign of
the Crossed Quills in
Sta Barbara