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San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, an asistencia of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, is located in Pala, California

Asistencias or visitas were smaller sub-missions of Catholic missions established during the 16th-19th centuries of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. They allowed the Catholic church and the Spanish crown to extend their reach into native populations at a modest cost.

Description[edit]

Asistencias were much smaller than the main missions with living quarters, workshops and crops in addition to a church. They were typically staffed with a small group of clergymen and a relatively small group of indigenous neophytes in order to maintain the complex.

Particularly strategic asistencias were later elevated to the status of a full mission. This typically included an expansion of existing facilities to support a larger clergy and indigenous neophyte population, improvement of basic infrastructure such as roads, and rechristening under a new Catholic saint.[1][2]

List of asistencias[edit]

The following is a list of asistencias that remained so at the time of their abandonment, sorted by year of establishment.

Arizona[edit]

Baja California[edit]

Baja California Sur[edit]

California[edit]

Sonora[edit]

List of former asistencias[edit]

The following is a list of asistencias that were elevated to the status of mission, sorted by year of establishment.

Arizona[edit]

Baja California Sur[edit]

California[edit]

Sonora[edit]

Misión San Diego de Pitiquito in Pitiquito, Sonora

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "California Mission Life". Factcards.califa.org. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  2. ^ "Mission Trail Today - Mission Asistencias and Estancias". U.S. Mission Trail. Retrieved 2015-06-17.
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