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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)
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    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1762
        • Affiliation End: 1768
        • Organization: Jesuits
    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1768
        • Affiliation End: 1773
        • Organization: Franciscans
    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1773
        • Organization: Dominicans
    • Descriptor

        Missions (settlements)
    • Descriptor

        Catholic church buildings
    • Associated Locale

        Baja California (Mexico : State)
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  • Sources

    • found: Misión San Borja, looking north, 1967, viewed Aug. 15, 2017(topic: Misión San Borja (Baja California, Mexico)) - https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb8397189k
    • 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)
    • found: Discoverbaja.com, Aug. 21, 2017(San Francisco de Borja Adac (1762-1818); The Franciscan Order replaced the Jesuits in 1768 and operated the California peninsula missions until mid-1773 when they divided California mission duties with the Dominican Order; No missionary letters or reports are known to exist after 1816) - http://www.discoverbaja.com/2014/08/16/the-spanish-missions-on-the-california-peninsula-16-san-francisco-de-borja-adac-1762-1818/
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  • Change Notes

    • 2017-08-15: new
    • 2017-08-29: revised
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