Mission San Ignacio Kadakaaman () was founded by the
Jesuit
The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...
missionary Juan Bautista de Luyando in 1728 at the site of the modern town of
San Ignacio, Baja California Sur
San Ignacio is a town in Mulegé Municipality, Baja California Sur. The town had a 2020 census population of 521.
History
San Ignacio grew at the site of the Cochimi, Cochimí settlement of Kadakaamán. The Society of Jesus, Jesuit Misión San ...
, Mexico.
History
The site for the future mission was discovered in 1706 by
Francisco María Piccolo
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Meaning of the name Francisco
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Commu ...
at the palm-lined
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 ...
oasis of Kadakaamán ("arroyo of the reeds"). The site proved to be a highly productive one agriculturally, and served as the base for later Jesuit expansion in the central peninsula. The impressive surviving church was constructed by the
Dominican missionary Juan Gómez in 1786. The mission was finally abandoned in 1840.
A statue of St. Martin de Porres, ‘saint of the broom’ adorns the sanctuary wall.
See also
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Spanish missions in Baja California
The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, between 1683 and 1834. The missionary goal was to spread the Christian do ...
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Spanish missions in California
The Spanish missions in California () formed a List of Spanish missions in California, series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California. The missions were established by ...
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Ferdinand Konščak
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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 be ...
References
* Vernon, Edward W. 2002. ''Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California, 1683–1855''. Viejo Press, Santa Barbara, California.
San Ignacio San Ignacio (the Spanish language name of St. Ignatius (disambiguation), St. Ignatius) is a common toponym in parts of the world where that language is or was spoken:
Argentina
* San Ignacio, Argentina, Misiones Province
* San Ignacio Miní, a ...
Mulegé Municipality
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1728
1728 establishments in New Spain
1728 in New Spain
18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Mexico
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