Or you can visit Tucson, Arizona, to tour San Xavier del Bac Mission church, the lovingly restored cathedral in the desert. One of the oldest churches in the American Southwest, San Xavier del Bac ...

A historic mission south of Tucson ... church was treated and covered with a tinted sandy cement-based plaster, said Starr Herr-Cardillo, conservation project manager for the Patronato San Xavier.

The mission is about 9 miles south of downtown Tucson and is accessible via Interstate 19 and San Xavier Road. The church is free to visit, attracting 200,000 visitors per year. The church is ...

The ornate entrance to San Xavier Mission will soon get a much-needed facelift, thanks to a $749,000 grant from the National Park Service. Conservators for the late-18th-century church plan to ...

Jill Schildhouse Sitting just south of Tucson on the San Xavier Indian Reservation ... this active Roman Catholic Church is a National Historic Landmark. The exterior features white stucco ...

Since March, Gallego, a retired Tucson Unified ... of the Patronato San Xavier, the 38-year-old nonprofit that sponsors restoration and preservation projects for the church, which is more than ...

I lived in Tucson for a decade and visited San Xavier often, drawn by its cultural significance, its beauty and its air of timeless calm. The church has survived an 1887 earthquake, a 1939 ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — San Xavier del Bac Mission is an 'Absolutely ... But work continues both inside the historic church as well as out front. "The mission, that's the icon of the city really ...

Jill Schildhouse Sitting just south of Tucson on the San Xavier Indian Reservation ... this active Roman Catholic Church is a National Historic Landmark. The exterior features white stucco ...

Cleaning crews are removing extensive graffiti from the outside of a historic mission south of Tucson ... wall. Church officials discovered the vandalism at the San Xavier Mission at sunrise ...

Although many attractions across Arizona are closed because of the pandemic, the San Xavier Mission, a 17th century Catholic Church on the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona, is open.

Mission San Xavier del Bac in Tucson, known as the Dove of the Desert, has been vandalized by graffiti. Steffanie Koeneman, spokeswoman for the Diocese of Tucson, verified the damage. Cleanup ...