Personal Narrative: The Wonderful Carmel Mission
Hugo Orosco
Mr. Gomez
SSCI-110
4 April 2010
“The Wonderful Carmel Mission” Driving down Highway one on a weekend vacation, my wife and I arrive at a little town by the name of Carmel. We decide to stop and drive around this beautiful town. We stop at the beach for a while and enjoy the beautiful day. After enjoying the day we leave the beach and drive a different way than when we came in to the town earlier that day; we get lost. As we are trying to get back to Highway one we turn on Rio Road and come onto one of the most beautiful buildings we have ever seen. We decided to get off and look inside; since we saw a parking lot and a couple of cars parked in the parking lot. When we went inside we found out that the beautiful place we were …show more content…
Father Serra was looking for a better location for the mission. Father Serra was looking to get away from the mission in Monterey because it was not an adequate place for cropping; nor were there enough Indians living around Monterey that could help with the everyday chores that needed to be attended to at the Mission. Also, father Serra wanted to get as far as possible from the Monterey military. The Carmel mission was founded June 3, 1770, by Juniper Serra (Krell, 83). According to Dorothy Krell, the church that now sits in the mission was begun in1973 and finished in 1979; so that means that father Junipero never saw the construction or the finishing of the final of seven different churches built on the mission. Father Serra would become the Father-President of entire chain of missions near and around the Carmel mission during his this time …show more content…
After the missions began to be secularized, the Carmel mission began to deteriorate little by little. According to Sydney Temple, the author of the book Carmel Mission, the pious fund that supported the missions was seized by government authorities in Mexico City and so the missions were left to the natives that had lived and kept the mission afloat. The responsibility was the natives to keep the mission going (70). For a while the natives found ways to support themselves, the natives would trade and sell cow hide with the ships that came in to the California ports. After the second and final secularization of the missions, “the Carmel mission lands were divided, half of the lands were give to the natives and the other half of the lands were sold by Spain to pay off their debt” (Temple 82). After the lands were sold and given to the natives the mission began to transform in to
Mr. Gomez
SSCI-110
4 April 2010
“The Wonderful Carmel Mission” Driving down Highway one on a weekend vacation, my wife and I arrive at a little town by the name of Carmel. We decide to stop and drive around this beautiful town. We stop at the beach for a while and enjoy the beautiful day. After enjoying the day we leave the beach and drive a different way than when we came in to the town earlier that day; we get lost. As we are trying to get back to Highway one we turn on Rio Road and come onto one of the most beautiful buildings we have ever seen. We decided to get off and look inside; since we saw a parking lot and a couple of cars parked in the parking lot. When we went inside we found out that the beautiful place we were …show more content…
Father Serra was looking for a better location for the mission. Father Serra was looking to get away from the mission in Monterey because it was not an adequate place for cropping; nor were there enough Indians living around Monterey that could help with the everyday chores that needed to be attended to at the Mission. Also, father Serra wanted to get as far as possible from the Monterey military. The Carmel mission was founded June 3, 1770, by Juniper Serra (Krell, 83). According to Dorothy Krell, the church that now sits in the mission was begun in1973 and finished in 1979; so that means that father Junipero never saw the construction or the finishing of the final of seven different churches built on the mission. Father Serra would become the Father-President of entire chain of missions near and around the Carmel mission during his this time …show more content…
After the missions began to be secularized, the Carmel mission began to deteriorate little by little. According to Sydney Temple, the author of the book Carmel Mission, the pious fund that supported the missions was seized by government authorities in Mexico City and so the missions were left to the natives that had lived and kept the mission afloat. The responsibility was the natives to keep the mission going (70). For a while the natives found ways to support themselves, the natives would trade and sell cow hide with the ships that came in to the California ports. After the second and final secularization of the missions, “the Carmel mission lands were divided, half of the lands were give to the natives and the other half of the lands were sold by Spain to pay off their debt” (Temple 82). After the lands were sold and given to the natives the mission began to transform in to