Mission La Purísima, was founded west of Loreto in
Baja California Sur, by the
Jesuit missionary Nicolás Tamaral in 1720 and financed by the
Marqués de Villapuente de la Peña and his wife the Marquesa de las Torres de Rada.
By 1735 it had been moved to a new location at the
Cochimí
The Cochimí were the indigenous inhabitants of the central part of the Baja California peninsula, from El Rosario in the north to San Javier in the south. Information on Cochimí customs and beliefs has been preserved in the brief observati ...
ranchería known as Cadegomó, meaning "arroyo of the carrizos", about 30 kilometers south of the original site. The mission was dedicated to the
Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth w ...
.
The mission was abandoned in 1822.
In the early twentieth century, the church was still in use, but by the start of the following century only a few traces of structures remained.
See also
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List of Jesuit sites
This list includes past and present buildings, facilities and institutions associated with the Society of Jesus. In each country, sites are listed in chronological order of start of Jesuit association.
Nearly all these sites have bee ...
References
* Vernon, Edward W. 2002. ''Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California''. Viejos Press, Santa Barbara, California.
Purisima Concepcion de Cadegomo
Loreto Municipality (Baja California Sur)
1720 establishments in New Spain
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