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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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1 December 2025

Mission Espada (Mision San Francisco de la Espada) is established in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Augusta, Texas, USA, and is renamed San Francisco de los Neches in 1721. The mission moves in 1731 to San Antonio and receives its current name. It is listed on the National Register on February 23, 1972. Through a partnership between the US National Park Service and the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sunday church services (in both English and Spanish) are still conducted there.

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23 May 2025

Visitors gather around the Klausen Synagogue, a historic synagogue building and part of the Jewish Museum complex in the Jewish Quarter of Prague, Czech Republic, on May 11, 2025. Built in the 1690s, the synagogue is the largest baroque synagogue in Prague and stands adjacent to the Old Jewish Cemetery.

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24 August 2023

Artists are performing a drama about the History of Kolkata City during the Sutanati Parisad to celebrate Kolkata's Birthday on August 24, 2023 in Kolkata, India. Kolkata's birthday is widely accepted as August 24, 1690, the day Job Charnock landed near Nimtalla Ghat.

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24 August 2023

Artists are performing a drama about the History of Kolkata City during the Sutanati Parisad to celebrate Kolkata's Birthday on August 24, 2023 in Kolkata, India. Kolkata's birthday is widely accepted as August 24, 1690, the day Job Charnock landed near Nimtalla Ghat.

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24 August 2023

Artists are performing a drama about the History of Kolkata City during the Sutanati Parisad to celebrate Kolkata's Birthday on August 24, 2023 in Kolkata, India. Kolkata's birthday is widely accepted as August 24, 1690, the day Job Charnock landed near Nimtalla Ghat.

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24 August 2023

Artists are performing a drama about the History of Kolkata City during the Sutanati Parisad to celebrate Kolkata's Birthday on August 24, 2023 in Kolkata, India. Kolkata's birthday is widely accepted as August 24, 1690, the day Job Charnock landed near Nimtalla Ghat.

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24 August 2023

Artists are performing a drama about the History of Kolkata City during the Sutanati Parisad to celebrate Kolkata's Birthday on August 24, 2023 in Kolkata, India. Kolkata's birthday is widely accepted as August 24, 1690, the day Job Charnock landed near Nimtalla Ghat.

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12 January 2023

Piles of wood before ignition in front of the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Vetrana in Castellana Grotte on January 11, 2023. Majestic piles of wood, called Fanove, monuments to memory built for the first time 332 years ago to celebrate the prodigious intervention of Maria Santissima della Vetrana who, on 11 January 1691, freed Castellana Grotte from the plague, making it immune to the extensive damage and to the many victims who registered in the neighboring municipalities during the epidemic of 1690-1691

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12 January 2023

The largest pile of wood before being ignited in front of the Sanctuary of the Madonna di Vetrana in Castellana Grotte on 11 January 2023. Majestic piles of wood, called Fanove, monuments to memory built for the first time 332 years ago to celebrate the prodigious intervention of Maria Santissima della Vetrana who, on 11 January 1691, freed Castellana Grotte from the plague, making it immune to the extensive damage and to the many victims who registered in the neighboring municipalities during the epidemic of 1690-1691

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