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Bookmark or Share- Our History - Mission San Juan Bautista Preservation FundMission San Juan Bautista was founded by Franciscan Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuėn and was dedicated on the feast day of John the Baptist, on June 24, 1797. The Mission was then destroyed by an earthquake in 1803 and the Mission Church we see today was completely rebuilt, brick by brick, in 1812.
- Mission San Juan Bautista Facts - Early California Resource CenterLocation: 406 2nd St, San Juan Bautista, CA 95045. Date founded: June 24, 1797. Patron saint: St. John the Baptist. Founder: Fr. Fermín de Lasuén. Native peoples: Mutsun (Ohlone), also Yokuts from the San Joaquin Valley. Goods produced: Wheat, barley, corn, beans, peas.
- San Juan Bautista – California Missions FoundationFifteenth in the chain, Mission San Juan Bautista was founded by Father Lasuén on June 24 th, 1797; the feast day of John The Baptist, Patron Saint of the mission. Just as the mission has been preserved, so too has the charming city in which it stands.
- San Juan Bautista - California Mission GuideSan Juan Bautista was the second of five missions built as part of a major expansion of the Alta California mission system. The expansion reduced the distance between missions, and the need for military escorts when travelling between them.
- Mission San Juan Bautista - WikipediaMission San Juan Bautista is a Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California. Founded on June 24, 1797, by Fermín de Lasuén of the Franciscan order, the mission was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions established in present-day California.
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