Photo gallery: Tour of Mission San Xavier Del Bac
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Photos of the Mission San Xavier Del Bac from 2011.
Touring the Mission
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Tour members pass by as Mission San Xavier del Bac parishoner Mike Maldonado prays at the alter. Guided tours are being offered of the Tucson mission for the first time in 214 years. Maldonado is from the reservation and has been soming here since age 10. He doesn't mind the throngs that pass through to admire the church. He sees it as an opportunity for people to be exposed to the Lord.
Touring the Mission
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Esther Martinez, and Ernesto Martinez, from Alpine, Texas listen to the tour guide during a tour of the Mission San Xavier del Bac church on Saturday, July 9, 2011 in Tucson, AZ.
Touring the Mission
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Docent John Carhuff, left, uses a pointer to show tour participants the points of interest in the Mission San Xavier del Bac church on Saturday, July 9, 2011 in Tucson, AZ. The Mission recently started an official tour program this Spring, the first in it's history.
Touring the Mission
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Diane Sprague stops to take a photo inside the Mission San Xavier del Bac during a tour. The mission has been renovated extensively over the past decade.
Touring the Mission
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Docent John Carhuff, center, uses a pointer to show tour participants the points of interest in the Mission. The Mission recently started an official tour program this Spring, the first in it's history.
Touring the Mission
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Jim Culbertson from Tucson, looks on as Eleanor Moore, from Sacramento, California snaps photos in the Mission San Xavier del Bac church.
Touring the Mission
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Docent John Carhuff, right, shows tour participants the points of interest in legends and architectural design of the church entrance to the Mission San Xavier del Bac.
Touring the Mission
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Visitor Melanie Hilmer, from the Villages, Florida, navigates a narrow stairway that opens to a museum space beneath the east bell tower at Mission San Xavier del Bac during a guided tour.
Touring the Mission
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Docent John Carhuff introduces a group of visitors to a guided tour in the Mission San Xavier del Bac during a guided tour on Saturday, July 9, 2011 in Tucson, AZ. This area is a museum room where visitors learn about the travels and work of Padre Kino, the mission's founder.
Touring the Mission
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Docent John Carhuff uses a diagram to demonstrate the construction of the walls in the Mission.
Touring the Mission
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Deep inside the Mission San Xavier del Bac tourists can get a glimpse of relics of the church's past.
Touring the Mission
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This book is called a Salter and is made of sheepskin. It was used for singing of psalms and the teaching of Latin.
Touring the Mission
- Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star
Tour members pass by as Mission San Xavier del Bac parishoner Mike Maldonado prays at the alter. Guided tours are being offered of the Tucson mission for the first time in 214 years. Maldonado is from the reservation and has been soming here since age 10. He doesn't mind the throngs that pass through to admire the church. He sees it as an opportunity for people to be exposed to the Lord.
Touring the Mission
- Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star
Docent John Carhuff, left, uses a pointer to show tour participants the points of interest in the Mission San Xavier del Bac church on Saturday, July 9, 2011 in Tucson, AZ. The Mission recently started an official tour program this Spring, the first in it's history.
Touring the Mission
- Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star
Docent John Carhuff introduces a group of visitors to a guided tour in the Mission San Xavier del Bac during a guided tour on Saturday, July 9, 2011 in Tucson, AZ. This area is a museum room where visitors learn about the travels and work of Padre Kino, the mission's founder.
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For the first time in the 214-year history of Mission San Xavier del Bac, visitors can take guided tours. "I'm sure in 1791 when the thing was finished somebody gave a tour, but this is the first scheduled, docent-led tour," said Vern Lamplot, executive director of Patronato San Xavier, the group organizing the tours.
There’s a time machine a few miles south of town. It’s called Mission San Xavier del Bac, an…
These are some of the questions I hear most often when I take visitors through San Xavier:
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