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Title: Chimes of Mission Bells

Author: Maria Antonia Field

Posting Date: March 19, 2009 [EBook #6894]
Release Date: November, 2004

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CHIMES OF MISSION BELLS

An Historical Sketch of California and Her Missions

By Maria Antonia Field

To the Revered Memory of
Junipero Serra

And of
My Great Grandparents
Esteban and Catalina Munras

This Book Is
Affectionately Dedicated

Acknowledgment of Gratitude

In producing this book I wish to thank my Mother, who wrote for me in
modern notation the music of the hymns of the Mission Fathers which are
contained in this work, and gave me much welcome information; also Rev.
Raymond M. Mestres, my zealous parish Priest, successor and compatriot
of Junipero Serra and the Mission Padres, for valuable data, and for
allowing me access to the early archives of San Carlos Mission and of
the Mission Church of Monterey.

Maria Antonia Field Monterey, California, June 1, 1914

Contents

Translation of the Names of the Missions

Tribute to Junipero Serra and the Mission Padres

Chapter I Junipero Serra, Leader of the Heroic Band of Spanish
Missionaries of California. His Coming to San Fernando, Mexico, Thence
to California

Chapter II Brief Sketch of the Conquest of California and of the
Founding of the Missions. Hospitality of the Missions. Care and
Benevolence of the Missionaries Toward the Indians

Chapter III More About San Carlos Mission and Monterey

Chapter IV California Under Spanish Rule

Chapter V California Passes from Spanish to Mexican Rule. Secularization
of the Missions

Chapter VI California Passes from Mexican to American Rule

Chapter VII Mission Anecdotes and Hymns

Chapter VIII Retrospection of the Work of the Spanish Missionaries,
Explorers and Settlers and their place in California's Apprec