{"id":1552,"date":"2016-07-20T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2016-07-20T00:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:01:19","slug":"mission-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1552","title":{"rendered":"Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo in San Antonio, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mission San Jose<\/strong> y San Miguel de Aguayo in San Antonio, Texas. The mission is a great place to visit when you are in the San Antonio area for several reasons. The best of which is that admission is free! There are very few places left where you can take the whole family at little to no cost. Founded in 1720, the mission\u00a0is\u00a0named for\u00a0Saint Joseph and the Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo. Saint Joseph was the governor of the Province of Coahuila and Texas when the mission was founded in\u00a01720. Built\u00a0on the banks of the San Antonio river, it resides just south of mission San Antonio de Valero. The Mission San Antonio de Valero is better known today as the Alamo.<\/p>\n

Mission San Jose, the queen of the missions<\/h2>\n

Mission San Jose is also referred to as the queen of the missions for several reasons. San Jose was the largest mission in the area,\u00a0home to\u00a0some 350 residents. Supported by its\u00a0fields and livestock, it became\u00a0a major social and cultural center. The giant\u00a0construction of the stone mission was completed in\u00a01782.\u00a0The complex and its missionaries were a\u00a0target for the Apache and Comanche indians. While these raids did result in the loss of\u00a0livestock, the\u00a0followers were well protected by the complexes giant walls.<\/p>\n

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Mission San Jose preservation<\/h3>\n
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Falling into decay\u00a0over the years, an effort\u00a0to restore portions of the mission began\u00a0in the 1920’s. Leading the restoration effort were\u00a0the San Antonio Conservation Society and the Federal Government.\u00a0The dome and bell tower which had deteriorated were reconstructed in 1937. Mission San Jose was separately declared both a state and national historic site\u00a0in 1941. The\u00a0San Antonio Missions National Historical Park was officially\u00a0created in 1978. The Spanish colonial mission is now\u00a0protected by the Archdiocese of San Antonio and the parish. Be sure to visit the mission on a Sunday as we did. The church is still active as a Catholic parish.<\/p>\n

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Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo in San Antonio, Texas. The mission is a great place to visit when you are in the San Antonio area for several reasons. The best of which is that admission is free! There are very few places left where you can take the whole family at little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}