Mission Espada
For more than sixty years, the plaza at Mission Espada in San Antonio, Texas was a busy place of learning of faith as well as works, language, and traditions. Along with the practicing hymns, prayers, and doctrines, mission Indians learned the skills needed to grow crops, to raise cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, to work iron, to produce textiles, to make brick, and to build with masonry.
Fortified by powerful zeal, Franciscan friars stove to teach the Coahuilteccans how to work and worship as Europeans did - a requirement (in the Spanish mind) for the Indians to become productive servants of God and loyal subjects to the King of Spain.
Mission Espada
For more than sixty years, the plaza at Mission Espada in San Antonio, Texas was a busy place of learning of faith as well as works, language, and traditions. Along with the practicing hymns, prayers, and doctrines, mission Indians learned the skills needed to grow crops, to raise cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs, to work iron, to produce textiles, to make brick, and to build with masonry.
Fortified by powerful zeal, Franciscan friars stove to teach the Coahuilteccans how to work and worship as Europeans did - a requirement (in the Spanish mind) for the Indians to become productive servants of God and loyal subjects to the King of Spain.