Santa Clara Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Posted by Roland in California, Education, Photos, Travel.trackback
It’s an overcast day here in the Bay Area. I just got to Berkeley, where I’ll stay tonight. My first meeting was at Santa Clara University this morning.
Mission Santa Clara is on the campus of Santa Clara University. The Mission was founded in 1777 (well before the University was founded) and was the first California mission named for a woman: Saint Clare of Assisi. Clare founded the Poor Clares at the same time that the Franciscans were established by St. Francis.
Small white crosses planted in front of the Mission church commemorate the murder of six Jesuits at the Catholic University of El Salvador, their housekeeper and her daughter in November 1989. Memorials to this event are common on Jesuit college and university campuses.
Great composition!
The cloudy sky seems fitting.
The memorial to the Jesuits of San Salvador remind me that the leader of that group (Echeverria or some such Basque name) who was killed spoke at my sister’s graduate at SCU, I believe in 1984. It was the best graduation speech I ever heard, and I have heard a few!