The adobe Mission San Miguel Arcangel is the oldest and most important ... On the inside, it is breathtaking, the walls covered with murals painted in swirls of color by Indian people almost ...

Mission San Miguel Arcangel was founded in 1797 by Franciscan ... an artist trained by the Spanish, to design murals for the new mission building. The result was a set of murals in swirling ...

SAN MIGUEL, Calif. (CN) — In a small dirt graveyard next to the old mission, two shovels and a bow rake lean against the sacristy wall. There are a few weathered tombstones sprinkled throughout the ...

Reporting from San Miguel ... mission. “What could we do?” Now there are plans to hold concerts and host community events in a new church hall and to finally preserve the Salinan murals ...

Walls pulled apart, statues broke into pieces and a crack appeared that runs the length of the church, but the state’s most dilapidated mission, San Miguel Arcangel in Central California ...

After the Dec. 22, 2003, San Simeon Earthquake, Mission San Miguel, with its precious Esteban Munras murals, quickly became ... After all, St. Michael the Arcangel, the Mission’s patron, fought ...

The annual San Miguel Mission Fiesta featured live music, games for kids, raffles, a silent auction and plenty of Mexican-American food Sunday. The San Miguel Arcangel mission was founded in 1797 ...

Pictured is San ... at Mission San Miguel, including the church and the friars’ living quarters. Experts feared the cracked walls of the sanctuary could collapse, destroying its historic murals.