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San Antonio is home to five Catholic Missions, and one
Cathedral, from the Spanish
Colonial era. It was from the tower of San Fernando Cathedral that the
blood red flag of no quarter was hung by the command of Santa Ana. The
buglers sounded "El Deguello" bugle call signifying that no quarter would be
given the defenders of the Alamo. I will be adding pictures of Colonial
San Antonio to these pages.
SPANISH MISSIONS. The Spanish mission was a frontier institution that sought to incorporate indigenous people into the Spanish colonial empire, its Catholic religion, and certain aspects of its Hispanic culture through the formal establishment or recognition of sedentary Indian communities entrusted to the tutelage of missionaries under the protection and control of the Spanish state. Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "SPANISH MISSIONS," (accessed April 14, 2006). |
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