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Tumacácori National Historical Park Orchard Lecturre
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Tumacácori National Historical Park
Centennial Lecture Series Friday, July 18, 2008


 

The Patronato of San Xavier del Bac

 

How that mission is being preserved

 

 
Dr. Bernard (Bunny) Fontana

Dr. Bernard (Bunny) Fontana

Retired University of Arizona Anthropologist Dr. Bernard (Bunny) Fontana will relate how the Patronato de San Xavier del Bac was organized to preserve the paintings and statuary of Mission San Xavier. He will augment his talk with slides of the intricate work that takes place there in maintaining this world treasure.

The lecture will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the old Mission Church at Tumacácori National Historical Park.

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Tumacácori Mission church, ca. 1889

Did You Know?
Construction of the Franciscan church at Tumacácori took place from about 1800 through the early 1820s. Due to lack of funds, the plans for the structure not only had to be modified, the building was never finished.
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