In 1492,after Christopher columbus brought back news of what he called the new the world (north america ,south America, and central america), The spanish government was eager to explore the land further. Holy Cross Catholic Church first began as one of the 21 California missions: La Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz, giving its name to the city and county. We continue to grow, with a mission for the 21st century.Holy Cross reaches out to its own, its youth and pre-school children, its elderly; and to people and communities sometimes alienated from the Church in various ways. Holy Cross, indeed, is about more than just buildings. Above all else, Holy Cross means family, community, inclusion, and service to others.We are happy to have people
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The people who rebuilt it spent quite a lot of time looking at old books and pictures, so that they could make it as much like the old Mission as possible. If you’d like to know a little more about what it looks like, here’s a little map of the Mission.You should come to visit, so that you can see it gleaming in the sunshine yourself. When you walk through the front door, it’s very peaceful and quiet. The sun streams through the windows and it makes you feel calm and happy. The benches in the front of the picture are where the people sit during church and they’re called, “pews.” The big sort of a doorway is called an “arch,” and if you look up at the very top of the picture, you can see the redwood beams that they used to make the roof of the church.You can see that the two saints are standing on the sides of a sort of a table. That’s called the “altar,” and that’s where the priests lead the people in prayer. If you look at the altar, you can see something that looks like a box standing on it. That is a very special thing to Catholics and it’s called a tabernacle. Catholics believe that God is present in the tabernacle during church services and so they always try to make the tabernacle as beautiful as possible. This tabernacle was actually in the old Mission and you can see how carefully …show more content…
They would beat pieces of gold and silver with hammers, until the pieces were so thin that they were like threads. Then you could use them for sewing, just like the thread that you have at home. Click on the picture and you can see some of the gold threads. I’ll bet you thought Rapunzel was the only one who could spin gold, but the Chinese were doing it a long time ago.Still, the long journey of the vestments was only beginning in China. The wonderful cloth was taken from there to the city of Manilla, in the Spanish colony of the Philippines. It was there that the cloth was sewn into the beautiful robes that we have today. They had to come all the way across the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish had ships called, Galleons, that sailed back and forth across the ocean, bringing goods from the Orient into Mexico. We think that it was on these Galleons that the robes crossed the ocean to the Americas. Click on the picture, if you’d like to see more of what a Galleon looked like. So, the beautiful robes sailed all the way across the Pacific Ocean in Spanish Galleons and arrived in Mexico. We think that they may have been used in Missions in Lower Mexico for awhile. One Mission would give them
The people who rebuilt it spent quite a lot of time looking at old books and pictures, so that they could make it as much like the old Mission as possible. If you’d like to know a little more about what it looks like, here’s a little map of the Mission.You should come to visit, so that you can see it gleaming in the sunshine yourself. When you walk through the front door, it’s very peaceful and quiet. The sun streams through the windows and it makes you feel calm and happy. The benches in the front of the picture are where the people sit during church and they’re called, “pews.” The big sort of a doorway is called an “arch,” and if you look up at the very top of the picture, you can see the redwood beams that they used to make the roof of the church.You can see that the two saints are standing on the sides of a sort of a table. That’s called the “altar,” and that’s where the priests lead the people in prayer. If you look at the altar, you can see something that looks like a box standing on it. That is a very special thing to Catholics and it’s called a tabernacle. Catholics believe that God is present in the tabernacle during church services and so they always try to make the tabernacle as beautiful as possible. This tabernacle was actually in the old Mission and you can see how carefully …show more content…
They would beat pieces of gold and silver with hammers, until the pieces were so thin that they were like threads. Then you could use them for sewing, just like the thread that you have at home. Click on the picture and you can see some of the gold threads. I’ll bet you thought Rapunzel was the only one who could spin gold, but the Chinese were doing it a long time ago.Still, the long journey of the vestments was only beginning in China. The wonderful cloth was taken from there to the city of Manilla, in the Spanish colony of the Philippines. It was there that the cloth was sewn into the beautiful robes that we have today. They had to come all the way across the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish had ships called, Galleons, that sailed back and forth across the ocean, bringing goods from the Orient into Mexico. We think that it was on these Galleons that the robes crossed the ocean to the Americas. Click on the picture, if you’d like to see more of what a Galleon looked like. So, the beautiful robes sailed all the way across the Pacific Ocean in Spanish Galleons and arrived in Mexico. We think that they may have been used in Missions in Lower Mexico for awhile. One Mission would give them