Mission San Lázaro
San Lázaro was a Spanish mission in the Sonoran desert.
Located in the Santa Cruz River valley, the European settlement was founded as a cattle ranch by José Romo de Vivar.[1] The mission was founded by Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino about 1695,[2] and was at various times a visita of Mission Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocóspera, Mission Santa María Suamca, or Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores.[1]
Kino oversaw the building of a mission church in 1706.[1] John Ross Browne sketched the mission in 1864.[2] By the late 1860s, it was deserted due to Apache raids.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Roca, Paul M. (1967). Paths of the Padres Through Sonora: An Illustrated History & Guide to Its Spanish Churches. Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. pp. 76–78. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ^ a b Eckhart, George B. (1960). "A Guide to the History of the Missions of Sonora, 1614-1826". Arizona and the West. 2 (2): 165–183. ISSN 0004-1408. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ^ Association, Cincinnati & Sonora Mining; Cherry, Cummings (1866). Geological Report and Map of the San Juan Del Rio Ranche: In Sonora, Mexico. Wrightson & Company. p. 124. Retrieved 12 December 2024.