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Title: The California padres and their missions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Saunders, Charles Francis, 1859-1941 Chase, J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton), b. 1864, joint author
Subjects: Franciscans Missions
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd I do remember his apolo-gizing for the condition of the walls. These had formerlyborne the usual crude decorations by Indian neophytes, butnow presented a monotonous expanse of modern hard plasterspread to keep the original coating from being stolen piece-meal by souvenir collectors. One can but wonder what thepublic has gained by this method of circumventing robbery— the cure seems on a par with the disease. Although religious services are no longer held regularlywithin the old building, it was pleasant to learn that now andthen a marriage is solemnized at the ancient altar — ofpeople, sometimes, who were baptized in the church and arealive to the sentiment of such a matter. A feature of the Mission is the cemetery, well known toreaders of Bret Harte — a weedy, tangled, down-at-the-heelcemetery, with the tombs and headstones at all angles, yet,in a way, more eloquent of the past than the taciturn oldchurch; for every headstone tells a story. The most famous 382 *.~ i--. «il
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IN THE CEMETERY, MISSION DOLORES, SAN FRANCISCO Mib i^^x (VUi00ion0 monument, perhaps, is a marble shaft above the remains ofDon Luis Antonio Argiiello, first governor of Alta Cali-fornia under republican Mexico, and brother of the heroineof Californias most famous romance. And somewhere in un-marked graves by the Mission walls are generations of In-dians — ten thousand of them, they say. Cosmopolitan, like the city that has risen about it, is thisold campo santo, where Spanish and Italian, French andAmerican, English and Irish and Indian, lie in peace togetherat last — particularly the Irish. The place is musical withtheir names — the Kellys and Burkes and Byrneses, theCronins and Gallaghers, the Sheehans and Noonans, theKeenans and OBriens, the McMahons, the McGinnises andMcNamaras. All feuds stilled, their grimy, mossy headstonesare cut deep with verses — alas, that they must be such dog-gerel! — voicing humanitys universal longing for a remeet-ing in a world where aching

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