Chase, J. Smeaton / 2008-06-06 00:00:00
EBOOK PENANCE OF MAGDALENA & OTHER TALES ***
Produced by David A. Schwan
The Penance of Magdalena
And Other Tales of the California Missions
By J. Smeaton Chase
With Illustrations
Foreward
Among the California Missions the southern group form a natural unit,
just as does, geographically, Southern California itself--the region
covered by the familiar California formula, "South of the Tehachapi." It
is thought that this little set of tales, extracted from the larger
work, The California Padres and Their Missions, in which Mr. Charles F.
Saunders and the writer collaborated, may be welcomed by those many
persons whose interest in Mission affairs is more or less limited to the
five here included, which are, probably, the most notable, historically
and architecturally, of the whole chain of these venerable monuments of
Franciscan zeal.
J. S. C.
San Juan Capistrano
The Penance of Magdalena
Slowly, very slowly, the greatest and most beautiful of the Missions of
Alta California had risen among the swelling lomas of the valley of the
San Juan. Brick by brick and stone by stone the simple Indian laborers,
under the tutelage of the Fathers, had reared a structure which, in its
way and place, might not unfitly be compared with those great cathedrals
of Europe in which we see, as in a parable, how inward love and faith
work out in material beauty.
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