Mission Santa Cruz (Spanish: La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz, lit. The Mission of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross) is a replica Spanish Californian mission in Santa Cruz, California.

Mission Santa Cruz is located on Mission Plaza in Santa Cruz, California. The Roman Catholic Parish of Holy Cross is the home of Mission Santa Cruz, the 12th link in the chain of 21 historic Spanish Franciscan missions that stretch from San Diego to Sonoma.

Initially, the Franciscans established Santa Cruz Mission at the bottom of Mission Hill, close to the intersection of River Street and North Pacific Avenue in present-day Santa Cruz City. With the arrival of winter, the San Lorenzo River flooded the Mission multiple times.

Mission Santa Cruz, dedicated twelfth in the mission chain on August 28, 1791 by Farther Lasuén, is a tiny mission along the northern California coast. Unlike the rest of California’s missions, leaders did not name Santa Cruz after a saint, rather after the holy cross.

5 天之前 · The Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park sits atop Mission Hill offering a patio, gardens, and excellent views of the city. The park features the only building left of the 12th California Mission, Misión la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz, founded by the Franciscans in 1791.

Mission Santa Cruz was one of the first Missions to be secularized. Neophytes living at the Mission were given some of the livestock, but none of the land. The land was given back to the Catholic church in 1859 but most of what was left of the Mission was destroyed in …

Mission Santa Cruz, located in the city of Santa Cruz, near the mouth of the San Lorenzo River, was the twelfth mission in the chain. It was founded on August 28, 1791, by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén and dedicated a month later, on September 25.

Mission Santa Cruz is known as “the hard luck mission.” The first hard luck that the Mission suffered came in the form of floods. The original Santa Cruz Mission was located on the banks of the San Lorenzo River near what is now downtown Santa Cruz.

When the Fathers eventually dedicated the Santa Cruz Mission on September 25, 1791, relations between the Missionaries and the Spanish Authorities were at their best. The Older Missions in the chain, already prosperous, sent to Mission Santa Cruz a great variety and quantity of gifts.

Mission Santa Cruz was built in the ancestral homelands of the Ohlone peoples. Ohlone practiced environmental stewardship in this region for thousands of years. One example was the practice of controlled burns that returned nutrients to the soil to foster new plant growth.