Where is santa inés located
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Mission Santa Inés
19th-century Spanish mission in California
Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) was a Spanish mission in present-day Solvang, California, United States, and named after St. Agnes of Rome. Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living north of the Coast Range. Sunset magazine editors wrote of the Hidden Gem of the Missions: “With its simple, straightforward exterior, Santa Inés fits one’s impression of how a ripe old mission should look.”[10]
The mission was home to the first learning institution in Alta California[5] and today serves as a museum as well as a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. It is also designated a National Historic Landmark, noted as one of the best-preserved of the 21 California missions.[11]
History
Most of the original church
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Mission Santa Inés: Site of the Chumash Revolt
The mission is also important as the place where the Chumash Revolt of 1824 started, one of the largest and most successful revolts of Native American Catholic neophytes in the Spanish West that reflected indigenous resistance to European colonization. After Mexican independence from Spain in 1821, life at the California missions changed. The Chumash were forced to work for the Mexican army, receiving payment in IOUs, which caused mounting frustration. On February of 1824, the beating of a Chumash by a Santa Inés soldier sparked an armed revolt that rapidly spread. Fires destroyed many Santa Inés buildings and smoke damaged paintings and decorations in the sanctuary. The large insurrection spread outside of Santa Inés to other missions in Alta California. After several months of violence, peace was restored with the governor of California pardoning the all the Chumash who participated in the revolt. Despite the return to peace they heyday of Santa Inés was over.
Another consequence of Mexico’s independence was secularization, whi
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Mission Santa Inés Virgen y Mártir was founded on September 17, 1804, by the Franciscan Father Estévan Tapís. Located in rolling hills, which provide one of the loveliest settings of any mission, Santa Inés has been called the “Hidden Gem of the Missions”. The Franciscans had chosen the area for the new Santa Inés Mission on a beautiful and well-watered valley inhabited by Indians who already knew about mission life. The Padres had every hope for a prosperous venture. However, bad luck was more often the rule at Mission Santa Inés.
The Mission Fathers and their Indian acolytes had not yet completed an extensive building program when everything tumbled to the ground during the earthquake of 1812. Although Mission dwellers started to rebuild at once, they spent five more years before being able to complete the rebuilding.
Then, there began to be trouble with the American Indians. After Mexico started its path to independence in 1810, the Government ceased to support the army. Soldiers in California needed to “live off the land”, which mostly meant living off the labor of Mission I
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