Mission San Juan Bautista

A view of the restored Mission San Juan Bautista and its added three-bell campanario ("bell wall") in 2004. Two of the bells were salvaged from the original chime, which was destoyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Location	San Juan Bautista, California
Name as Founded	La Misión de San Juan Bautista [1]
Translation	The Mission of Saint John the Baptist
Namesake	Saint John the Baptist
Nickname(s)	"The Mission of Music"
Founding Date	June 24, 1797 [2]
Founding Priest(s)	Father Fermín Lasuén
Founding Order	Fifteenth
Military District	Third
Native Tribe(s) Spanish Name(s)	Costeño
Owner	Roman Catholic Church
Current Use	Parish Church
Coordinates	36°50′42.3″N, 121°32′9.2″W
California Historical Landmark	#195

Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around a large grassy plaza in front of the church and can be seen today in their original form. The town of San Juan Bautista, which grew up around the Mission, expanded rapidly during the California Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today. Mission San Juan Bautista has served mass daily since 1797, so it has never experienced much of a "rebirth." The structures suffered extensive damage in the earthquakes of 1800 and 1906. The Mission was restored initially 1884, and then again in 1949 with funding from the Hearst Foundation, and today continues to serve as a parish of the Catholic Diocese of Monterey. Download high resolution version (2032x1524, 823 KB)Mission San Juan Bautista. ... Arnold Genthes famous photograph of San Francisco following the earthquake, looking towards the fire on Sacramento Street The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of northern California at 5:12am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. ... San Juan Bautista is a city located in San Benito County, California. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén de Arasqueta (June 7, 1736 – June 26, 1803) was a Spanish missionary to the Americas. ... The Spanish Missions in California (more simply referred to as the California Missions) comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Dominicans, Jesuits, and Franciscans, to spread the Christian doctrine among the local Native Americans. ... An Aani (Atsina) named Assiniboin Boy. ... Map of the Costanoan languages The Ohlone (formerly Costanoan) are an ethnic group whose members lived in what is now the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay areas of California until after the European discovery and settling of this area. ... The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church (see Terminology below) is the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins and sees itself as the true Church founded by Jesus of Nazareth and maintained through Apostolic Succession from the Twelve... California Historical Landmarks (CHLs) are buildings, structures, sites, or places in the state of California that have been determined to have statewide historical significance by meeting at least one of the criteria listed below: approved for designation by the County Board of Supervisors or the City/Town Council in whose... June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining. ... 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) was the first world-class gold rush. ... An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from and is powered by the sudden release of stored energy in the crust that propagates seismic waves. ... Several noted people have had the last name Hearst: William Randolph Hearst Patty Hearst William Hearst George Randolph Hearst Jr. ... The Mission Basilica San Carlos Borromeo is the oldest church in the Diocese of Monterey The Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California (Latin: Dioecesis Montereyensis in California) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese in the United States of the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Central...

The Mission and its grounds were featured prominently in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo. Associate producer Herbert Coleman's daughter Judy Lanini suggested the Mission to Hitchcock as a filming location. A steeple, added sometime after the Mission's original construction and secularization had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a "bell tower" using scale models, matte paintings, and trick photography at the Paramount Pictures studio in Los Angeles. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a highly influential British director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Vertigo is a 1958 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...

Actor Jimmy Stewart stands on the ledge of Mission San Juan Bautista's "bell tower" at the conclusion of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The Mission didn't actually have a bell tower, so one was constructed on the Paramount backlot for the film.

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Other historic designations

• National Register of Historic Places #NPS-69000038 — San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District

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Notes

1. ^ Leffingwell, p. 121
2. ^ Yenne, p. 132

References

• Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5.
• Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8.

See also

• Spanish missions in California
• Teatro Campesino
• USNS Mission San Juan (AO-126) — a Buenaventura Class fleet oiler built during World War II.

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External links

• Vertigo at the Internet Movie Database

A glimpse of the sacristy at Mission San Juan Bautista, circa 1897.

A photograph of Mission San Juan Bautista taken between 1880 and 1910. The steeple (far right), constructed after the Mission was secularized, was subsequently destroyed in a fire.

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