San Juan Capistrano mission / by Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engelhardt, Zephyrin, 1851-1934.

Series:

Missions and missionaries of California. New series, Local history

The Missions and missionaries of California. New series. Local history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mission San Juan Capistrano.

Penn Provenance:

Schuyler, Robert L., 1947- (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 259 pages including frontispiece, illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, Cal. : [The Standard printing Co.], 1922.

Contents:

I. Preparation for founding

Patron saint

Viceroy Bucareli

Cross planted

Indians pleased

Work suspended

Founding by Fr. Junipero Serra

Threatened by savages

Mission locality

Grapewine

Indians uncommonly friendly and docile

II. Fr. Serra arranges the mission books

Title page of the baptismal register

First entries

Indian servants

First structures

Fr. Serra's church

Gov. Felipe de Neve and his instructions

Allowance of the missionaries

Neve's utter meanness

III. Fr. Serra confirms

His farewell visit

Interesting items

Site of mission

Statistics

Donations

Gov. Fages's notes

Building activities

New church

A pretty legend

IV. Imported artisans not a success

Fr. Santiago to Gov. Borica

Home manufactures

Wife-murder

Reception rooms built

Master mason at last

Corridors

Contagious diseases, fire

New church dedicated

Transfer of body of Fr. Fuster

V. Building activities

An unwelcome visitor

Rev. Domingo Rivas defends the fathers

Missionary changes

The aqueduct

Fathers Suner and Barona

VI. Disputes

Correspondence

Indian labor

Hemp culture

Earthquake

The beautiful church ruined

The victims

Old church again used

Hospital erected

VII. The Indians and their habits

Fr. Boscana's Chinigchinich

Bouchard invasion

Mission looted

Controversy

Dispute about cattle

VIII. A scandalous case

Fr. Barona illtreated by soldiers

Two soldiers repent

Fr. Sarria's protest

Mexican president's decision

Fr. Duran on the subject

Bancroft's misstatement

Destruction of papers

Contribution of the mission

Fr. Barona ill

Oath of allegiance

IX. Governor Echeandia

His emancipation scheme

Consequences

Indians turbulent

Decay sets in

Report on lands of the mission

Floods

Ranchos

Live stock

Question of Indian rights to lands

Spanish law on subject

X. Alfred Robinson's visit

Pattie's alleged visit

Richard Dana's visit and description

XI. Fr. Zalvidea and Fr. Bascana exchange places

Bancroft's malice

Death of Fr. Barona

Bancroft's ignorance

Fr. Zalvidea's pathetic letter

Change of governors

Echeandia's trickery

He lords it over the south

Fr. Zalvidea's reply to Echeandia

XII. Governor Figueroa's emancipation plan

Indians unwilling

Lands apportioned

Bancroft's statement

Decree of confiscation

Inventory

Fr. Zalvidea defended by Fr. Duran

Poverty of the mission

XIII. New governor appointed

Alvarado refuses to surrender the office

Military force

Bravery of the Californians

Administrators

Indians not free

Property wasted

Inspector Hartnell

The situation at San Juan Capistrano

Indians want Fr. Zalvidea

Sad incident

XIV. Consequences of premature emancipation

Immorality

Desertions

Fr. Duran to Fr. Zalvidea

J. A. Estudillo's proposal

Fr. Zalvidea in charge

Appoints Augustin Janssens Mayordomo

Interesting letters of Fr. Zalvidea

XV. Fr. Zalvidea on the alert

A pious fund on a small scale

Enormous land grants

Fr. Zalvidea's savings

Mayordomo Janssens honest

Pueblo of San Juan Capistrano dissolved

Claims

XVI. Land lots assigned

The beneficiaries

Surviving Indians

Hittell on San Juan Capistrano

Alvarado's regulations

San Juan de Arguello

Juan Bandini in charge

Fr. Zalvidea

XVII. Bandini's confession

The pious fund

Doctrine of liberalism

Duflot Mofras's description and foolish figures

Three pathetic letters

XVIII. San Juan Capistrano's degradation

Governor Micheltorena's decree

Pio Pico's determination

His illegal decree

Invalid deed

Pio retires

Major W. H. Emory's account

His opinion on the ownership of the mission property

XIX. United States patent restoring the mission property

The law on the subject

The survey

The tracts of land restored

President Abraham Lincoln's signature the last act in the drama

XX. Life at the mission

Mission register

Important entry No. 40

Fr. Serra administers confirmation

His second visit

The original chapel

The banner year

Conditions for reception of baptism

Labor involved

Rich harvest

New baptistry

XXI. Autos-de-Visita, or canonical visitations

Last resident Franciscan, and last visiting missionaries

Baptism of whites

Adopted Indians

Without shepherd

Rev. Jose Rosales in charge

Parish contributions

XXII. First marriage

Confirmation register

Confirmations

Bishop Jose S. Alemany at the mission

Episcopal visitations

Burial register

First burials

San Juan Capistrano el Viejo

Death of Fr. Fuster

Measles

Earthquake victims

Death of Fr. Oliva

Miss Lorenzana

XXIII. The first resident secular priest

Rev. Jose Maria Rosales

Second burial register

SOme entries

Rt. Rev. Thaddeus Amat, C.M.

Disappearance of the Indians

Rev. Vicente Llover

A zealous apostle

Rev. Jose Mut's mistake

His zeal

Incurs animosity of land sharks

Fr. Serra's church vacated

First ecclesiastical function in the chapel

XXIV. Biographical sketches of the missionaries who retired to the mother college, or died at Mission San Juan Capistrano

Fr. Gregorio Amurrio

Fr. Pablo de Mugartegui

Fr. Vicente Fuster

Fr. Jose Faura

Fr. Juan Jose de Santiago

Fr. Jose Barona

XXV. Biographical sketches, continued

Fr. Vicente Pascual Oliva

List of the resident and visiting missionaries or priests who officiated at Mission San Juan Capistrano.

Notes:

On cover: The jewel of the missions.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Professor Robert L. Schuyler.

Other Format:

Online version: Engelhardt, Zephyrin, 1851-1934. San Juan Capistrano mission.

OCLC:

1819838