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Parts of the mission walls, as well as the sacristy, church bell. and a cherished Spanish statue of Santo Entierro (Christ Interred) survived the 1907 fire.
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The present Socorro Mission was constructed around 1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Rio Grande.
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Renamed San Francisco De la Espada.
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was relocated in 1731
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Mission Concepcion is the oldest unrestored stone church in America.
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By 1793, only 12 Indians remained. By this point, few of the hunting and gathering tribes in Texas had not been Christianized.
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The mission was to be secularized in 1794, but La Bahia remained in service until Mexican Independence in 1821.
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It is estimated that about 65,000 Native Americans lived in coastal zone of California (mission chain zone) in 1770 and by 1830 only 17,000 remained living, a decline of 74%.
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It was the only mission in Texas to be completely destroyed by Native Americans.
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Know as Queen of Missions.