San Juan Capistrano Mission, California

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Princeton Theological Seminary (Contributor)
Contributors: James R. Tanis (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Postcard
Language:Undetermined language
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Published: s.a.
Further subjects:B Postcards
B Catholic Church
B United States ; CA ; San Juan Capistrano
B Fine Arts
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Description
Item Description:"Earthquake has rent, man has despoiled, time has renounced the Mission San Juan Capistrano, yet its pure nobility survives, indestructible. The tower has fallen, the sanctuary is bare and weather-beaten, the cloisters of the quadrangle are roofless, and the bones of forgotten padres lie beneath the roots of tangles shrubbery; but the bells still hang in their rawhide lashings and the cross rises, white against the sky. The mission dominates the valley. Go where you will, the eye turns to the colossal fragment, a forlorn but vital thing, broken, crushed, and yet undying"