Mission San Lázaro

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San Lázaro was a Spanish mission in the Sonoran desert.

Located in the Santa Cruz River valley, the European settlement was founded as a cattle ranch by José Romo de Vivar.[1] The mission was founded by Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino about 1695,[2] and was at various times a visita of Mission Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocóspera, Mission Santa María Suamca, or Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores.[1]

Kino oversaw the building of a mission church in 1706.[1] John Ross Browne sketched the mission in 1864.[2] By the late 1860s, it was deserted due to Apache raids.[3]

References

  1. Roca, Paul M. (1967). Paths of the Padres Through Sonora: An Illustrated History & Guide to Its Spanish Churches. Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. pp. 76–78. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  2. Eckhart, George B. (1960). "A Guide to the History of the Missions of Sonora, 1614-1826". Arizona and the West. 2 (2): 165–183. ISSN 0004-1408. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  3. Association, Cincinnati & Sonora Mining; Cherry, Cummings (1866). Geological Report and Map of the San Juan Del Rio Ranche: In Sonora, Mexico. Wrightson & Company. p. 124. Retrieved 12 December 2024.