Mission San Rafael Arcángel, San Rafael, California, 9 x 12, Ink (Item#293)
Mission San Rafael Arcángel, founded as an asistencia on December 4, 1817 by Jose Vicente de Sarría, is the second to last in the chain of twenty-one California missions. Named after Saint Raphael the Arcángel, the angel of bodily healing, Mission San Rafael began as an asistencia, or helper, to Mission Dolores and the ill northern-California Indians devastated by the inclimate weather in San Francisco.
Mission San Rafael Arcángel, founded as an asistencia on December 4, 1817 by Jose Vicente de Sarría, is the second to last in the chain of twenty-one California missions. Named after Saint Raphael the Arcángel, the angel of bodily healing, Mission San Rafael began as an asistencia, or helper, to Mission Dolores and the ill northern-California Indians devastated by the inclimate weather in San Francisco.
Mission San Rafael Arcángel, founded as an asistencia on December 4, 1817 by Jose Vicente de Sarría, is the second to last in the chain of twenty-one California missions. Named after Saint Raphael the Arcángel, the angel of bodily healing, Mission San Rafael began as an asistencia, or helper, to Mission Dolores and the ill northern-California Indians devastated by the inclimate weather in San Francisco.