Cemetery Entrance

Entrance to the mission cemetery from the church, Mission Santa Barbara. The skull and crossbones, a type of memento mori, was often used to designate a cemetery in Spanish colonial days. (The skull and crossbones is commonly found at Franciscan cemeteries.) SB030

Mission Santa Barbara

December 27th 1984
Arriving in Santa Barbara, our first stop was to visit the mission. Mission Santa Barbara, Virgen y Martir was founded on December 4, 1786 (the Feast of St. Barbara) as the tenth of California's twenty-one Spanish colonial missions. As were all of the missions, Santa Barbara was founded to extend Spanish colonization along the Pacific coast and to educate and Christianize the Native American tribe ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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