Mission San Xavier del Bac (known as the White Dove of the Desert) is one of the finest examples of baroque architecture in the U.S. Influenced by Moorish, Byzantine, Renaissance and Mexican ...

The Mission San Xavier del Bac dates back to the 1700s and depicts Tucson's Spanish-filled roots. The Sonoran Desert region has been home to Apache and other Native American peoples for centuries ...

That’s the bottom line. Imagine if a copper deposit was found under the ground beneath the Mission San Xavier del Bac south of Tucson, or beneath the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the buttes of ...

Imagine if a copper deposit was found under the ground beneath the Mission San Xavier del Bac south of Tucson, or beneath the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the buttes of Sedona, or the Temple of The ...

15.25 x 19.5 in. (38.7 x 49.5 cm.) ...

There was only one stop left in Tucson before we began our drive north toward Phoenix, Mission San Xavier del Bac. The mission was founded in the late 1690s. The church that stands today, however, was ...

In 1768, Garcés left for New Spain (now Mexico). He was soon assigned to the San Xavier del Bac Mission in what would later be Tucson, Arizona. Inspired by the founder of this mission ...