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, 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.

Residents on the South Side of Tucson may have heard loud bangs this morning, but they were just fireworks kicking off the Saint Francis Xavier Feast at San Xavier Mission, where festivities will ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — San Xavier Mission is one of southern Arizona's top tourist destinations, but it also still functions as a church more than two centuries after it was first built.

PHOENIX -- A little black sign greets visitors as they walk into the San Xavier del Bac Mission south of Tucson. "Welcome to this house of worship. Please speak quietly, so as not to disturb those ...

San Xavier del Bac is in the Tohono O’odham village of Wa:k — the village of water — 10 miles south of Tucson. According to Patronato, the Wa:k community was a large and significant ...

TUCSON, Ariz. - The Silver & Turquoise Board of Hostesses has announced the 73rd Annual Silver & Turquoise Ball, scheduled for May 3, 2025, at the Arizona Inn.

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 ...

San Xavier del Bac's history goes back centuries. In 1692, Italian missionary Father Eusebio Kino visited the southern Arizona village of Wa:k —the "village of water" — for the first time.

It was one intact cultural region, and he traveled for 24 years and one day across the vast, dry, Primera Alta. San Xavier Mission began in 1692, and though Father Kino preached Christianity, he ...

Photos: San Xavier Mission in 1940 and 2015 Historic American Buildings Survey, Donald W. Dickensheets, Photographer. April 10, 1940 GENERAL VIEW MAIN CHURCH (SOUTHWEST ELEVATION).

Santiago Gomez, with Morales Restoration, sprays off the word “rape” as he removes graffiti from in front of the San Xavier Mission south of Tucson, Ariz., on April 7, 2016.