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  City of San Juan , California
Incorporated in 1869 the general law City of San Juan Bautista is nestled in the heart of the noted San Juan Valley between the Gabilan Mountains and Flint Hills.
Rich with culture and history, San Juan Bautista offers her residents and visitors a refreshing small town atmosphere filled with the charm and character of the past.
San Juan Bautista recognized as a Preserve America Community for their Commitment to Historic Preservation by First Lady Laura Bush and the Trust.
www.san-juan-bautista.ca.us   (488 words)

  
 Experience California history at Mission San Juan Bautista.
The San Juan Bautista Mission, founded in June 24, 1797, is the fifteenth in the chain of 21 California Missions and the largest church in the California Mission chain.
Daytime strollers, families, picnickers, and tourists from foreign countries come to San Juan Bautista to glimpse at what daily life was once like in the town.
Adjacent to the mission, San Juan Bautista State Historic Park includes several structures built in the 1800s, including the Plaza Hotel, Plaza Hall and stable, flsmith shop, granary, jail and the Castro Breen adobe.
www.bestwesternhollister.com /mission-san-juan-bautista.asp   (550 words)

  
  Instituciones Lasallistsa en México
Juan Bautista nació en el seno de una familia, tan cristiana como acomodada, el 30 de abril de 1651.
Juan Bautista, tras numerosas consultas y prolongada oración, el 24 de junio de 1682, abandona su residencia familiar, se despide de sus hermanos y hermanas, y decide vivir con sus primeros "discípulos" en dos casas alquiladas.
La gran preocupación de Juan Bautista De La Salle fue la formación de maestros profesionales, con espíritu cristiano, que se preocuparan por sus alumnos.
www.lasalle.org.mx /secciones/sjbautista/vida_y_obra.shtml   (1558 words)

  
 San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District--Early History of the California Coast--A National Register of Historic ...
The plaza area of the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, was once used as a parade ground for Spanish troops.
Significant buildings in the district include San Juan Bautista Church, constructed from 1803-1813, (partially rebuilt following the 1906 earthquake), the Plaza Hotel (1868) and stables (1874), and the José Castro House, 1840-1841, an adobe house with a two story veranda, constructed by José Castro, Commandante of northern California prior to the U.S. occupation.
The plan of the town, with its central plaza, is an excellent example of a 19th century village during the Spanish colonial era.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/ca/ca30.htm   (186 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
San Juan Bautista Mission was founded on St. John's Day, June 24, 1699, on the Río de Sabinas, some twenty-five miles north of Lampazos, Nuevo León, Mexico, with 150 Indians of various Coahuiltecan bands.
San Juan was situated adjacent to the presidio until it was moved a short distance west of the village about 1740.
San Juan Bautista served also as a listening post for news of the French, who in 1699 had settled at Biloxi Bay and were exploring west of the Mississippi.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/SS/uqs24.html   (1508 words)

  
 Fault (and time) creep in San Juan Bautista / Mission town enlivened by wine, theater
We are in San Benito County's Cienega Valley, in a cavernous warehouse that serves as both winery and tasting room, sniffing bouquet of Negrette, a rare inky-dark red varietal said to be planted on only 180 acres in the world.
A San Juan Bautista institution, the Faultline occupies a bungalow perched on the edge of the San Andreas.
San Juan Inn, 14 The Alameda at Highway 156.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/22/TRG2J539AK1.DTL&type=printable   (1249 words)

  
 Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail (U.S. National Park Service)
It was the first overland route established to connect New Spain with San Francisco.
The weather along the 1200 mile Anza Trail varies from southwest desert in Arizona and Southern California, to the central coast of California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 1775, Spanish Captain Juan Bautista de Anza led three hundred people and one thousand cattle and horses on a journey over two thousand miles to San Francisco, which Anza founded.
www.nps.gov /juba/index.htm   (343 words)

  
 Bail Bonds in San Juan Bautista, California
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 About San Juan Bautista
Helen Hunt Jackson, who began her novel Ramona on a visit to San Juan Bautista, in 1883, wrote that "At San Juan there lingers more of an atmosphere of the olden time than is to be found in any other place in California." Over one hundred years later, this statement still rings true.
San Juan Bautista is known throughout the country for its unique selection shopping boutiques, artist studios, restaurants, and turn of the century architecture.
San Juan Bautista aoffers unique cultural experiences through the "Living History" events held each month and the famous theatrical presentations by El Teatro Campesino.
www.hollinet.com /~sjb/aboutsjb.html   (482 words)

  
 El martirio de San Juan Bautista
Y te suplicamos que nunca dejes de enviarnos valientes predicadores, que como Juan Bautista no dejen a los pecadores estar tranquilos en su vida de pecado por que los puede llevar a la perdición, y que despierten las conciencias de sus oyentes para que cada uno prefiera morir antes que pecar.
Cuando pidieron la cabeza de Juan Bautista el rey sintió enorme tristeza porque estimaba mucho a Juan y estaba convencido de que era un santo y cada vez que le oía hablar de Dios y del alma se sentía profundamente conmovido.
Juan murió mártir de su deber, porque él había leído la recomendación que el profeta Isaías hace a los predicadores: "Cuidado: no vayan a ser perros mudos que no ladran cuando llegan los ladrones a robar".
www.ewtn.com /spanish/Saints/Juan_Bautista_Martirio.htm   (779 words)

  
 Indian Family Housing at Mission San Juan Bautista
Mission San Juan Bautista, in California's Coast Range between Missions Soledad and Santa Clara, was founded over 200 years ago on June 14, 1797.
One section of the San Juan Bautista State Historic Park (SHP) was known to have had stone foundations under a surface of hard, adobe soil.
Although most of the ceramic pieces were very small and thus hard to identify particular patterns, among the English transferprint pieces were several in a brown design whose design name and maker is yet to be determined.
www.parks.ca.gov /default.asp?page_id=22731   (1036 words)

  
 San Juan Bautista Mission
The San Juan Bautista Mission was the 15th mission to be founded.
The San Juan Bautista Mission is located on Highway 156 in San Juan Bautista.
The San Juan Bautista Mission was founded on June 24, 1797.
www.kidport.com /reflib/usahistory/missions/sanjuanbat.htm   (121 words)

  
 Mission San Juan Bautista
The San Juan Valley was nevertheless an eventful place to build a structure.
The Indian population at San Juan Bautista grew very rapidly, providing both the need and the labor for the construction of a new, larger church.
The town of San Juan Bautista began as a mission town, but soon grew to be much more.
www.classbrain.com /artmission/publish/mission_san_juan_bautista.shtml   (441 words)

  
 The Barrel Organ at Mission San Juan Bautista
The town of San Juan Bautista was bypassed by the railroad, and lost out to the neighbouring town of Hollister (known as "the earthquake capital of the world") in the competition to become county seat when San Benito county was created.
It is still at Mission San Juan and is quite imposing, being over five feet in height, over two feet in width, and a foot and a half in depth.
During his stay at San Juan Bautista, he wrote two important works one was a compendium of Indian phrases, and the other was an exhaustive study of the Mutsumi language which received scientific recognition in 1860.
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 San Juan Bautista
San Juan is widely known for its selection of shops and boutiques ranging from clothing, glassworks, candy, clocks, Christmas ornaments, weaving, artifacts, Indian jewelry, art galleries, and antiques.
San Juan is rich with history, you can find an abundance of turn of the century architecture, showcasing interiors decorated with preserved relics of the era.
San Juan's destiny to become a landmark happened when the South Pacific Rail Road arrived in near by Hollister by passing San Juan Bautista.
www.jardinesrestaurant.com /San_Juan_Bautista.htm   (354 words)

  
 San Juan Bautista, California
San Juan, as locals call it, is a living monument to colliding layers of California history.
From its beginnings in the 18th century, this road was the central artery of ambition from San Diego to Sonoma for convert-hungry padres, gunslinging soldiers, and eager settlers.
During the 19th century, San Juan's plaza, now a grassy common, saw its share of military drills, fiestas, and cockfights, plus the occasional showdown between a bull and a tethered grizzly bear captured in the surrounding hills.
www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/sweet_spot05.asp   (938 words)

  
 History
The community of San Juan Bautista gathered in front of the historic mission December 17th as Old Mission pastor Father Edward Fitz-Henry and sculptor Thomas Marsh unveiled an eight-foot statue of mission patron St. John the Baptist (c.f.
When he retired from office he came to San Juan Bautista where his musical talents brought fame and a new name to San Juan, "THE MISSION OF MUSIC." Two of his handwritten choir books can be seen in the Museum.
Interior completion of the church continued through 1817 when the floor was tiled and the main altar and reredos (which holds the six statues) were completed by Thomas Doak, an American sailor who jumped ship in Monterey.
www.oldmissionsjb.org /history.html   (890 words)

  
 Mission San Juan Bautista
THE OLD MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA began with a group of leather-jacketed soldiers and a few Native Americans watching a tonsured Franciscan priest raise his eyes and hands toward the sky.
To the south of the mission was the grand elevation of Gavilan, from which springs ran to irrigate the mission gardens, vineyard, and cornfield.
A small settlement of whites grew up in the pueblo and there were some 50 inhabitants in the town of San Juan by the end of 1839.
www.athanasius.com /camission/bautista.htm   (3505 words)

  
 New Rules Project - Retail - Formula Business Restrictions - San Juan Bautista, CA
A decline in the vitality of the City's commercial and historic districts will cause a loss of employment opportunities for small business owners and employees who are residents of the City and the surrounding region.
Under CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 and Public Resources Code section 21083.3(e), the proposed regulations are consistent with the San Juan Bautista General Plan.
Policy L-24 – Support the establishment of new tourist-oriented businesses that are consistent with the town's role as an historic center, an arts and cultural center, an agricultural center, and a showcase of Early California living.
www.newrules.org /retail/sanjuanbautista.html   (1110 words)

  
 Parroquia de San Juan Bautista de La Corredoria
Parroquia de San Juan Bautista de la Corredoria
Bienvenido a las páginas de la Parroquia de San Juan Bautista de La Corredoria.
San Juan Bautista de La Corredoria es una parroquia bastante moderna, fundada en 1959; el templo se inauguró el 19 de marzo de 1964, desde entonces La Corredoria no ha dejado de crecer, y en estos años se encuentra en una fase de importante expansión.
www.iglesiadeasturias.org /lacorredoria   (1024 words)

  
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 San Juan Bautista, California (CA) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, ...
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The ratio of number of residents in San Juan Bautista to the number of sex offenders is 331 to 1.
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 Real Estate San Juan Bautista CA California - Homes for Sale - BobVila.com
There is a 6-bay, 4,000-square-foot garage and circular motor court; a caretakers apartment; access to stable facilities, and more.
SAN JUAN VISTA RANCH is the 40-acre parcel almost at the top of the hill.
WALK to town San Juan Bautista from this spacious updated home.
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 San Juan Bautista News - Topix
Local news for San Juan Bautista, CA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
San Benito County is about to host some guests from across the Pacific.
Spinach profits remained high in San Benito County despite E.
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 29 de Agosto. El martirio de San Juan Bautista
Cuando pidieron la cabeza de Juan Bautista el rey sintió enorme tristeza porque estimaba mucho a Juan y estaba convencido de que era un santo y cada vez que le oía hablar de Dios y del alma se sentía profundamente conmovido.
Juan murió mártir de su deber, porque él había leído la recomendación que el profeta Isaías hace a los predicadores: "Cuidado: no vayan a ser perros mudos que no ladran cuando llegan los ladrones a robar".
Y te suplicamos que nunca dejes de enviarnos valientes predicadores, que como Juan Bautista no dejen a los pecadores estar tranquilos en su vida de pecado por que los puede llevar a la perdición, y que despierten las conciencias de sus oyentes para que cada uno prefiera morir antes que pecar.
www.churchforum.org /Santoral/Agosto/2908.htm   (1453 words)

  
 Mission San Juan Bautista
Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on Saturday, June 24, 1797 by Father Fermin de Lasuen, Presidente of the California Missions, a post he held after the death of Father Junipero Serra.
The town of San Juan Bautista grew rapidly during the Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today.
Mission San Juan Bautista is still active to this day and claims to have served mass every day since 1797.
www.cuca.k12.ca.us /lessons/missions/Bautista/SanJuanBautista.html   (712 words)

  
 Mission San Juan Bautista - LetsGoSeeIt.com
Mission San Juan Bautista was founded June 24, 1797 by Father Lausen.
And all the country of Judea was going out to him, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.
Mission San Juan Bautista is located in the city of San Juan Bautista at Second & Mariposa Streets.
www.letsgoseeit.com /index/county/san_benito/sj_bautista/loc01/mission_sjb.htm   (981 words)

  
 Mission Trail Today - Mission San Juan Bautista
Mission San Juan Bautista is part of the San Jaun Bautista State Historic Park which also includes later American constructions.
The San Juan Bautista Mission church is located about one hundred feet from the San Andreas Fault which tears through most of California and has played havoc on all of the missions over their over two hundred year history.
San Juan Bautista is a few miles off Highway 101 about ten miles south of Gilroy.
www.missiontrailtoday.com /code/mission15.htm   (776 words)

  
 7 de Abril, San Juan Bautista de la Salle
Juan Bautista había estudiado en el famoso seminario de San Suplicio en París y allí recibió una formidable formación que le sirvió para toda su vida.
Un 15 de agosto los consagró San Juan Bautista a la Santísima Virgen y han permanecido fervorosos propagadores de la devoción a la Madre de Dios.
San Juan Bautista de la Salle murió el 7 de abril de 1619 a los 68 años.
www.churchforum.org /Santoral/Abril/0704.htm   (1752 words)

  
 The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Rupturing the northernmost 296 miles (477 kilometers) of the San Andreas fault from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino, the earthquake confounded contemporary geologists with its large, horizontal displacements and great rupture length.
In the public's mind, this earthquake is perhaps remembered most for the fire it spawned in San Francisco, giving it the somewhat misleading appellation of the "San Francisco earthquake".
The frequently quoted value of 700 deaths caused by the earthquake and fire is now believed to underestimate the total loss of life by a factor of 3 or 4.
quake.wr.usgs.gov /info/1906   (531 words)

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