Talk:Mission Santa Cruz

Why the prehistory of the native American peoples?

This discussion has been moved to Talk:Spanish missions in California. Mdhennessey (talk) 06:33, 21 March 2008 (UTC) This mission was founded and built ny Father Fermin.www.californiamissions.com

Yokuts?

Added a cite tag - this statement in the first paagraph, "...and later the Yokuts from the east", needs explanation and sourcing. How and why did these Yokuts get to Santa Cruz? There is no expanded discussion in the article text. WCCasey (talk) 04:43, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Beaten to death, but he survived? Really?

My family just visited the mission and I wanted to learn more of it's history and wikipedia seemed a good place.

But this part really raised my skepticism.

> Father Andrés Quintana was beaten to death and his body disfigured by natives angry over his use of a metal-tipped whip in the punishment of mission laborers. Through an "Act of God" as quoted by witnesses, he survived. Only to die years later due to trying to recreate the act behind closed doors.

Which is it, he was beaten to death, or he survived, it can't be both unless he rose from the dead, and I don't suspect the catholic church would be good with that.

If you follow the link to the father's wiki page it says this.

> He was killed at the mission on the evening of October 12, 1812, by Indians under his care.

67.169.141.146 (talk) 02:33, 8 April 2016 (UTC)Rich

"Replica" chapel

The small chapel begun in 1931 cannot be described as any sort of "scale replica". No images of the original mission chapel before the 1857 earthquake exist, so there was nothing on which to base a replica except a painting done 19 years later with the aid of descriptions by old-timers. The "replica" chapel is approximately 2/3 the length of the original. See (http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/24/) WCCasey (talk) 03:09, 19 June 2016 (UTC)