What Animals Were Raised In The Mission San Buenaventura

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San Buenaventura 9th Mission

Foundation:	Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782
Too known as:	Mission by the Ocean
Patron Name:	Named in honor of Saint Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church, a 13th century Franciscan, key and renowned philosopher.
Founder:	Fray Junipero Serra
Padres First Assigned:	Fray Benito Cambon, Fray Vincente de Santa María and Fray Francisco Dumetz
Native Americans and the Mission:	San Buenaventura Mission was located in the land of the coastal Chumash Native Americans. After the establishment of the mission the neophytes were known every bit Ventureño. The descendants of the littoral Chumash today are known as the Barbareno/Ventureno Band of (Chumash) Indians.
Location:	The mission was located near the sizeable Indian hamlet of Mitsquanaqa'n with virtually 500 inhabitants. San Buenaventura Mission is lxx miles north of Los Angeles in the city of San Buenaventura, which developed around the mission.
Blueprint:	The traditional Mission quadrangle pattern remained standing as late every bit 1875. Today the slight four acre parcel is domicile to buildings from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-outset centuries.
Water Source:	A seven-mile-long earth and masonry zanja or aqueduct brought h2o from the San Buenaventura River.
Population:	Inside the first 45 years the missioin population climaxed to its highest recorded population: 1,328 in 1816. During the mission era there were 1,107 marriages performed at San Buenaventura.
Livestock:	In 1816 (the summit year) the mission had over 41,000 animals including 23,400 cattle, 12,144 sheep and 4,493 horses (one of the largest stables of horses in the mission concatenation.)
Agriculture:	From 1784 - 1834 the mission reported harvesting 191,291 bushels of wheat, barley, corn, beans, peas, lentils, garbanzos (chickpeas) and habas (broad beans).
Mission Church:	A small-scale chapel preceded the outset church that was destroyed past fire in 1793. The second church was dedicated in 1809, and reconstructed in 1816 later an earthquake. The church building is made of adobe with walls are half dozen foot thick near the base. The church had to exist restored after it was "modernized" in 1893. Restoration was completed in 1957.
Mission Bells:	A three-tiered companario contains five bells, ii of which were originally borrowed from Mission Santa Barbara. The two oldest bells date from 1781. TheVerbum Domini bell cast in Paris in 1956 is heard throughout the day calling the faithful to prayer and to announce the hour and half hr.
Sacred Creative Treasures:	The loftier chantry and its reredos originated in Mexico and were installed when the church building was defended in 1809. The Shrine of the Crucifixion on the left side of the church contains a 4 hundred-year old bulto and purportedly origniates from the Philippine Islands.
Special Attraction:	There is a well-landscaped garden with a fountain, stone grotto, and educational displays. The quaint mission museum (built in 1929) contains the original church building doors and two original wooden bells, which were used during Holy Week when the metallic bells were silent.
Significant Consequence:	Although the mission was evacuated for a month in 1818 considering of the threat of a pirate attack by the Argentine privateer Hypolite Bouchard, the mission was notwithstanding spared.
Secularized:	in 1836 by the Mexican Government
U.S. Territory:	1847 California became a U.Southward., Territory and the Mission returned to the Cosmic Church in 1862 by a proclamation signed past President Abraham Lincoln.
Current Status:	Active Roman Catholic Parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

This information is adapted from the "Primal Facts well-nigh San Buenaventura" © Pentacle Printing LLC, with their permission. A more complete, full-color, laminated version of these Primal Facts is available in our Souvenir Shop.

Interesting Facts:

San Buenaventura was intended to be the 3rd mission, only its founding was postponed for thirteen years, and so it became the 9th mission established.

In the mission era whaling ships anchored almost the mission to furnish their food lockers and trade for cured cattle hides (called Yankee Dollars )
Captain George Vancouver met Fr. Dumetz at the mission in 1793 and named Point Dume, betwixt Point Mugu and Malibu, later the friar.
President and Mrs. William McKinley visited San /Buenavnetura Mission on May x, 1901.
The twin 120-human foot Norfolk pino trees in front of the mission (planted circa 1880) were designated California Millennium landmark trees by the American the Beautiful Fund in 2000.