Mission San Antonio de Padua
Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon. Founded on July 14, 1771, it was the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra. The mission was the first use of fired tile roofing in Upper California. Today the mission is a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey and is no longer active in the mission work which it was set up to provide.
The reconstructed Mission San Antonio de Padua as it appeared in 2006; construction on the Mission first began in 1810. The baked brick Campanario is unique among California Missions.
Photograph of Mission San Antonio de Padua by landscape photographer Carleton Watkins, dating from 1873 to 1883.
False colorized photograph of Mission San Antonio de Padua from 1898.
1970s view of the mission
Jolon is a small unincorporated village in southern Monterey County, California. Jolon is located on the San Antonio River Valley, west of Salinas Valley and is entirely surrounded by Fort Hunter Liggett.
Image: Mission San Antonio de Padua modern (cropped)
Image: Milpitas Hacienda 1 (cropped)
Image: The Hacienda (cropped)
The Spanish founded Mission San Antonio de Padua in 1771, under the command of Saint Junípero Serra.
