by Monica Young | Jun 21, 2023 | Events, General, News
The “All-Aboard-the-Bus” Student Field Trip Program is finally seeing fourth-grade classrooms return to the Missions! This year the California Missions Foundation (CMF) awarded 23 schools field trip grants so that 1,797 students from Los Angeles, Monterey,...
by Monica Young | Aug 23, 2022 | General, News
Mission San Gabriel continues to make great progress with repairs to the Church two years after the fire in July, 2020. The recent restrictions made getting repair equipment and new materials more difficult and timely. The Mission hopes...
by Monica Young | Aug 23, 2022 | General, News, Programs
The California Missions Foundation (CMF) is joining with Mission Santa Inés for a critical retrofit of the mission, which will be a $3.6 million project. CMF is currently forming a fundraising committee and will be reaching out to engage everyone from the local...
by Monica Young | Jun 28, 2022 | General, News
Border Community Alliance (BCA), a local nonprofit based in Tubac, AZ, is offering group showings of its award-winning film, “Pilgrimage to Magdalena” to Tucson-area groups during fall 2022. This 30-minute film documents the centuries-old, cross-order...
by Monica Young | Mar 2, 2022 | General, News
The Hispanic Heritage Project announced the recent acquisition of the following books: Poblar la Frontera, Chantal Cramaussel – $85 Matrimonios en la ciudad de Mexico 1568-1577, Patricia S. Hyde and Egan de Warren – $49 The Bexar Archives, Adan Benavides,...
by Monica Young | Jul 22, 2021 | General, News
In March of 2021, the Patronato San Xavier began the second phase of work on the east tower of Mission San Xavier del Bac. The work on the east tower, which will take about a year, will involve the removal of most of the cement-based plaster on the exterior, which has...