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Seniors Create Gingerbread San Xavier

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Residents at Desert Springs Gracious Living spent time last fall using their construction and cooking skills to build a miniature Mission San Xavier from gingerbread and other food materials. Assisted by executive chef Jose Hernandez and activities coordinator Elizabeth Sims, residents researched the church using historical drawings and took a...
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Thank you for a Successful Spring Concert

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The Original Wildcat Jass Band
Thank you to all who attended Patronato’s fifth Spring Concert, presenting one of our most popular spring concert performers – The Original Wildcat Jass Band. The Original Wildcat Jass Band features six of the finest musicians in Arizona, offering traditional New Orleans and Chicago jazz, with a gospel oriented spirit. Most members...
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Holiday Concerts SOLD OUT

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Christmas concerts at San Xavier
The 16th Annual Christmas Concerts at San Xavier were a great success – selling out all six performances. Thank you so much for your support. The six concerts, on Tuesday, Dec. 11 through Thursday, Dec. 13 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., have become a Southern Arizona holiday tradition. The...
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It All Started 320 Years Ago…

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..when Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino on horseback entered the village of Wa:k in 1692.  It was the first of several visits during the next eight years during which the Jesuit priest founded Mission San Xavier and laid the foundations of a church that was never built. (The exact location of...
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Hexafoils at Mission San Xavier

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by Bernard Fontana The late 18th-century Franciscan-built church at San Francisco Xavier del Bac is essentially a Marian shrine. This is notwithstanding its dedication to St. Francis Xavier in 1692 by its Jesuit founder, Father Eusebio Kino. Representations of the Virgin Mary outnumber those of all other religious personages. Her...
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