San Lázaro was a
Spanish mission in the Sonoran desert.
Located in the
Santa Cruz River valley, the European settlement was founded as a cattle ranch by
José Romo de Vivar
José Romo de Vivar was a Novo Hispanic rancher and miner, an early European settler in Arizona.
Biography
Vivar's grandfather was Diego Romo de Vivar (1589–1691), a Spanish explorer and military officer who conquered a large part of presen ...
.
The mission was founded by
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
Eusebio Kino
Eusebio Francisco Kino, Jesuits, SJ (, ; 10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711), often referred to as Father Kino, was an Italian Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer, mathematician and astronomer born in the Prince-Bishopric of Tre ...
about 1695,
and was at various times a of
Mission Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocóspera,
Mission Santa María Suamca, or
Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores.
Kino oversaw the building of a mission church in 1706.
sketched the mission in 1864.
By the late 1860s, it was deserted due to
Apache
The Apache ( ) are several Southern Athabaskan language-speaking peoples of the Southwestern United States, Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico. They are linguistically related to the Navajo. They migrated from the Athabascan ho ...
raids.
References
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Missions in Sonora
1695 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Jesuit history in North America