Mission San JosÃÆ'Â © is a Spanish mission located in the city of Fremont, California today. Founded on June 11, 1797 by the Franciscan order and is a fourteenth Spanish mission established in California. This mission is the name of the district of Mission San JosÃÆ' © Fremont, which is an independent city that was incorporated into the city when it was founded in 1957.
The mission entered a long period of gradual decline after the action of Mexican secularization in 1833. Although many restoration efforts during the intervening periods have reconstructed many of the original structures. The old mission church is still used as the chapel of the Saint Joseph Catholic Church, the parish of the Diocese of Oakland. The museum is also equipped with a visitor center, museum, and slide show that tells the history of the mission.
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History
The mission of San JosÃÆ'Â © was originally to be built by Juan CrespÃÆ' in what is now the San Ramon Valley. However, Native Americans living in the area are very hostile to Spain. So, Spain decided to move the Mission further south to where it is now Fremont, California.
Working on the San Jose Mission site began in May 1797 by the Native Americans of Mission Santa Clara, 13 miles to the south, under the direction of Franciscan missionaries and secular Hispanic supervisors. Its location, on a slope overlooking the Fremont plain on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, has been inhabited for generations by the San Francisco Bay Ohlone Indian speaking man. The Ohlone lived a hunting lifestyle and planted wild plants. Their food includes seeds, roots, fruit, flour from tree seeds, small game, deer, fish, and shellfish. In 1797 most of the Indians, from around the mission site were actually baptized in Mission Santa Clara, 13 miles to the south, during the 1780s and early 1790s. These are the people who returned home to form the founding populations of the new community. (Milliken 2008) Wall of mission San Josà ©  © along 5 feet. The church is 126 feet long, 30 feet wide, 24 feet high; made of adobe and redwood, floors and walls made of tiles.
By the end of 1800 the population of new people had risen to 277, including Ohlone and Bay Miwok speakers. At the end of 1805 all Indians in the East Gulf south of the Carquinez Strait were on a mission. After a measles epidemic that devastated the mission population by a quarter in 1806, people from more distant areas and new language groups began to join the Mission San Jose community. The first group of languages ​​was Yokuts or Yokutsan, whose speakers began to move to Mission San JosÃÆ' Â © from San Joaquin Valley in 1810. Members of two other language groups, Miwok Beach from present Sonoma County and Patwin from Napa and Solano now. district, moved to Mission San Jose in the period 1812-1818, but in smaller numbers than the Yokuts. In 1825 Delta Yokuts was the dominant language in the multi-lingual community of 1,796 people. Over the next few years speakers of another language group, the Miwok Plain, moved to a mission from the north side of the Sacramento River Delta-San Joaquin. By the time San Jose Mission closed as a farm commune in the mid-1830s, the Miwok Plain was the dominant native language among the new Indians (Milliken 2008).
Father Narciso DurÃÆ'¡n became a missionary priest in 1806, and remained until he was succeeded by Father Josà © González Rubio in February 1833 as part of a post-independence policy that required the replacement of the Spanish-born clerics with those born in Mexico. DurÃÆ'¡n trains new people in music, organizes choirs and 30 famous orchestras throughout California. While in San JosÃÆ' ©, Father Durán twice served as Father-President of the Franciscan mission.
The first permanent adobe Mission Church was devoted to a grand ceremony on April 22, 1809. A prize of robes, holy ships, religious statues and paintings proving the generosity of Mission friends in the Bay Area and abroad. The majority of clothing in modern collections dates from the late 18th century and early 19th century. Silk and embroidered fabrics are the products of various Spanish imperial textile centers, whose suppliers are extended from Europe to Asia. Mission San JosÃÆ'Â © is an industrial and agricultural center. This site was chosen because of the abundance of natural resources in the area including water, fertile soil, rocks and adobe land suitable for buildings. Thousands of livestock roam the Mission ranged, and acres of wheat and other crops are planted and harvested under the direction of the headquarters. In 1868, it produced 4,070 bushels (110 tons) of wheat and much of the produce, including wine, olives, and figs.
In 1832, 12,000 Mission cattle, 13,000 horses, and 12,000 sheep explored the Mission region of Oakland which is now San Jose. San JosÃÆ'Â © is one of the most prosperous of all California missions. The 1833 inventory prepared by Father JosÃÆ'Â © González Rubio includes a church, monastery, guardhouse, guesthouse, and women's dormitory, in addition to thousands of hectares of crops and grazing land. This prosperity did not last long, however. On August 17 of that year, the Mexican Congress passed the Act for the Secularization of California Mission .
The Rancho Period (1836-1853)
During the transition to full secularization, Father Josà ©  © González Rubio remains in Mission as chief administrator for the church, while JosÃÆ' © de JesÃÆ'ºs Vallejo (General Brother Mariano G. Vallejo) is appointed civilian administrator. Mission Land is gradually distributed to private landowners. In 1842, Pastor GonzÃÆ'¡lez Rubio was transferred to Mission Santa Barbara. The indigenous people fled but found themselves unable to adapt to their previous way of life; many later died of disease and starvation. Mission buildings, barns, gardens, and gardens are left to rot, and large herds are scattered. The Mexican governor PÃÆ'o Pico sold the Mission property for personal gain in 1845 for $ 12,000. During the 1848 California Gold Rush, H. C. Smith converted Missions to general stores, salons, and hotels. The Mission City of San JosÃÆ'® became a growing supply center at the gateway to the southern mines. The names of many prominent pioneer families in early California history: Livermore, Peralta, and Alviso (to name a few) are closely related to the Mission.
California California statehood (1850-1980)
The Rancho period ended with the succession of California to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and the establishment of California as a state in 1850. Some of the original exterior adobe buttresses were removed by order of the parish priest. On March 18, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln restored the California mission to the Catholic Church.
On October 21, 1868 an earthquake measuring 6.3-6.7 on the Hayward Fault that stretched through the mission yard destroyed the walls of the Mission church and opened the roof. Other Mission buildings, including Tienda, Pastor's Place, and Mission itself were also damaged by the earthquake.
The site was logged and a wood-framed, gothic-style church was built directly on the tiled red Mission Floor. In 1890, a Victorian rectory was built on the site of a section of the adobe wing that became a foothold and served as an administrative building during the Mission Era.
The 20th century and beyond (1900-present)
The original mission comprises more than 100 adobe buildings. The restoration efforts by the Original Children of Golden West in 1915 and 1950 saved the surviving parts of the Mission wing and transformed it into a museum, arranged in a friendly floral and palm tree environment. In 1956, the city of Mission San JosÃÆ'Â © was combined with four others to become the City of Fremont. The plan to reconstruct the Mission San José church was launched in 1973. The Victorian brothel was moved to nearby Anza Street and the Gothic-style wooden church moved to San Mateo where it has been restored as a worship house by the Anglican Church Group. After extensive archaeological excavations and planning, construction began in 1982 on a replica of the 1809 adobe church. The work was completed and the facility was inaugurated on June 11, 1985. The walls vary in thickness from 4 to 5 feet (1.5 m). Old wood and raw leather straps show the practicality of padres that, having no iron spikes to build, replace the leather straps. As a result, the wood used in the reconstruction has been given a sculpted look.
With its "simple and straightforward" exterior, the Mission church stands out as a tribute to those whose efforts make this dream a reality. The luxuriously decorated interiors follow the description in historic inventory of the 1830s. The crystal lamp is a copy of a period piece similar to that listed in the old church inventory. Two of the original statues have been placed on two side altars. Ecce Homo , the figure Christ wearing a red robe and crowned with thorns, stood on the balcony above one of the side altars. Another Saint Bonaventure statue is carved out of wood and then painted. The original baptism font of copper hammered at a changed wooden base has been returned to the church, just like the bell wheels used by Ohlones during the sacred parts of the Mass.
The reredos behind the main altar displays the portrait of Christ, the statue of Saint Joseph, and two carved figures: a pigeon represents the Holy Spirit, and at the top seats God the Father with a detailed golden light around him. he. The altar and choir fence were copied from the original work found in the museum during the reconstruction. Mission Cemetery ( camp santo ) is located on the side of the church where a large number of Mission pioneers are buried. During excavations, Robert Livermore's marble tomb marker is located on the original tile floor of the church. It was repaired and replaced carefully in the reconstructed church. Many prominent Spaniards are buried on the floor of the Mission church but only the marked Livermore cemetery. Thousands of Ohlones rested at the Ohlone cemetery located about a quarter mile from the mission on Washington Boulevard. Three bells The original mission was moved from a ruined adobe church to a wooden church in 1869, where they were hanged until the 1970s. The fourth bell has been given to a church in Oakland and rearranged, but returned to Mission during the reconstruction of the bell tower. Now the four bells are hung, ready to ring on special occasions.
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