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Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, Texas
This historic Catholic mission, founded by Franciscan missionary Father Antonio Margil de Jesus, is known as the "Queen of the Missions". It is the largest of the missions and restored to original design. Spanish missions were not churches, but communities with the focus church. It is on the Banks of the San Antonio River and a few miles to the south of the Mission San Antonio de Valero, aka Alamo. This mission had a reputation as a major social and cultural center in the mid to late 1700. The imposing complex of stone walls, bastions, granary, and church was often a target of raids. Mission San José is a lasting symbol for the Spanish mission frontier in Texas.
This historic Catholic mission, founded by Franciscan missionary Father Antonio Margil de Jesus, is known as the "Queen of the Missions". It is the largest of the missions and restored to original design. Spanish missions were not churches, but communities with the focus church. It is on the Banks of the San Antonio River and a few miles to the south of the Mission San Antonio de Valero, aka Alamo. This mission had a reputation as a major social and cultural center in the mid to late 1700. The imposing complex of stone walls, bastions, granary, and church was often a target of raids. Mission San José is a lasting symbol for the Spanish mission frontier in Texas.
The mission's focus church as it stands restored.
Dedicated statue to it's founder.
Dwelling and arms area.
One entrance to multiple dwellings along the walls of the mission.
One of many open cooking hearths.
The Rose Window
La Ventana de RosaSite where the Host was shown to gathered mission celebrants during the Feast of Pentecost. Legend has it named for Rosa the betrothed of Juan Huizar, who created the window after her death at sea.
The grist mill on the elaborate water maze on the mission grounds.
Typical tree in mission.
Sacristy
Entrance to alter
Active church alter
Flowers adorning the grounds around the mission church and mill.
Ranges in size from a golf ball to soccer ball.
The Ball Moss (Tilandsia recurvata) a small epiphyte that cling to 1°ly Live Oaks in the southwest Texas. It is not a moss but a flowering plant that makes its own food, absorbs water and gathers nutrients from the blowing dust. (Think Spanish Moss)
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