The exterior of San Xavier del Bac, a mission that dates back to the 1700s, will undergo a rehabilitation process to preserve the original plaster.

TUCSON (AP) — The historic Mission San Xavier del Bac has been vandalized for the second time in a week. Two plaster statues near the front door of the 203-year-old mission's mortuary chapel ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Mission San Xavier in Tucson is set to undergo its biggest preservation project in more than a decade. The Arizona Daily Star reports that scaffolding could go up by late ...

The docent program is a child of the Patronato San Xavier, the 38-year-old nonprofit that sponsors restoration and preservation projects for the church, which is more than 200 years old.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — San Xavier del Bac Mission is an 'Absolutely Arizona' story 225 years in the making. But it's actually an ever-changing story, thanks to ongoing renovations.

COVID-19 concerns will keep worshipers out of the main chapel at San Xavier Mission on Easter Sunday, but at least the view from in front of the church should be greatly improved.

Known as the Dove of the Desert, San Xavier del Bac near Tucson, Ariz., is the finest example of Mexican Baroque Catholic church architecture in the United States.

Until the COVID-19 pandemic, many tourists visited San Xavier. Docents showed them around the church and grounds, Minkel said, which made it feel more like a museum than a worship space.

Mission San Xavier was built between 1783 and 1797, but the east tower was never finished. Its kiln-fired adobe bricks were left unplastered, its matching dome and lantern forever absent.