Misión San Francisco de Borja Adac (Baja California, Mexico)
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Misión de San Francisco Borja (Baja California, Mexico)
Misión San Borja (Baja California, Mexico)
Misión San Francisco Borja (Baja California, Mexico)
Mission San Francisco Borja (Baja California, Mexico)
San Borja (Mission : Baja California, Mexico)
San Francisco de Borja Adac (Mission : Baja California, Mexico)
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1762
- Affiliation End: 1768
- Organization: Jesuits
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1768
- Affiliation End: 1773
- Organization: Franciscans
Has Affiliation
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Catholic church buildings
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Baja California (Mexico : State)
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Sources
found: Las Misiones antiguas, ©2002:page 171, etc. (Misión San Francisco de Borja Adac, 1762-1818; founded by father Wenceslaus Linck, S.J.; N 28° 45.104ʹ W 110° 03.552ʹ; At the foot of a steep, lava-strewn hillside, springs surrounded by lush greenery formed a place called Adac by the native Cochimí. A chapel and simple irrigation system were built here by father Jorge Retz in 1759, to serve as a visita for Misión Santa Gertrudis; An endowment from a wealthy Italian noblewoman, María de Borja, funded the foundation and building of Misión San Francisco de Borja at the visita site by the Bohemian Jesuit priest Wenceslaus Linck, in 1762; By 1818, so few natives were living that the mission was abandoned)
found: Misiones en el camino real misionero del estado de Baja California, 2005:page 15, etc. (Misión de San Francisco Borja (1762-1823); Mission San Francisco Borja; founded on 27 August 1762 by father Wenceslaus Linck; extensive adobe outbuildings and a hospital were built, an adobe church was added in 1769, and in 1801 a large church was built out of stone; Although permanently abandoned in 1823 due to a lack of population, extensive ruins of adobe outbuildings are present at the mission, and the large stone church is in a good state of preservation)
found: Misiones en la península de Baja California, 1991:page 101 (Misión San Francisco de Borja Adac)
found: Wikipedia, Aug. 15, 2017(Misión San Francisco Borja; San Borja was a Spanish mission established in 1762 by the Jesuit Wenceslaus Linck at the Cochimí settlement of Adac, west of Bahía de los Ángeles. Before becoming a mission, the future site of San Borja served as a visita or subordinate mission station for Misión Santa Gertrudis. The construction of buildings was begun in 1759. A stone church was completed during the Dominican period, in 1801; The mission was abandoned in 1818, as the native population in this part of the peninsula disappeared. Structures and ruins survive)
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2017-08-15: new
2017-08-29: revised
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