Mission Santa Cruz is a Spanish Californian mission. Located on Mission Hill, it was founded on August 28, 1791, by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, the successor of Father Junipero Serra. The mission was dedicated that same year. The present mission chapel building is a replica located near the original site, on which Holy Cross Church now stands.
The Mission Santa Cruz chapel replica
Mission Santa Cruz, 1876
Holy Cross Church (c. 1900)
Inside the mission chapel replica
Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta was a Basque Franciscan missionary to Alta California president of the Franciscan missions there, and founder of nine of the twenty-one Spanish missions in California.
Statue of Fermín de Lasuén as depicted on a Junípero Serra cenotaph at Mission Carmel
Statue of Fermín de Lasuén in San Juan Bautista.