Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares or simply Fray Antonio de Olivares (1630 - 1722) was a Spanish Franciscan who officiated at the first Catholic Mass celebrated in Texas, and he was known for contributing to the founding of San Antonio and to the prior exploration of the area. He founded, among other missions, the Alamo Mission in San Antonio (better known as simply the Alamo), the Presidio San Antonio de Bexar, and the Acequia Madre de Valero.
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Francisco Solano. Fray AntoniodeOlivares also built the Presidio San Antoniode Béxar, on the west side of the San Antonio River, approximately 1 mile...
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Mission San Antoniode Valero (later famous as The Alamo) to Fray AntoniodeOlivares. On May 5, 1718, he commissioned the Presidio San Antoniode Béxar ("Béjar"...
patron saint of the mission's founder, AntoniodeOlivares, as well as for the viceroy of New Spain, Baltasar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, Marquis of Valero. The...
Medero Antonio Menchaca Jose Menchaca Juan Moya Ramón Músquiz Jose Antonio Navarro AntoniodeOlivares Salvador Rodríguez (regidor) Francisco Antonio Ruiz...
the Payaya befriended Franciscan priest AntoniodeOlivares. They became the mission Indians at San Antoniode Valero Mission, founded in 1718, later known...
elected by a council to lead the expedition of Antonio deOlivares and Isidro de Espinosa to San Antonio, Texas and the Colorado River of Texas. The expeditionary...
Lighthouse of the Orcas (Spanish: El faro de las orcas) is a 2016 Spanish-Argentine drama film directed by Gerardo Olivares. It stars Maribel Verdú and Joaquín...
co-discoverer and of the Pacific; fray AntoniodeOlivares, founder of the city of San Antonio, Texas; Alonso Vélez de Mendoza, leader of the group who repopulated...
Philippines," formally entrusted the mission on May 1 to Father Antoniode San Buenaventura y Olivares in a foundation document, still preserved. The mission was...
published a work in French: Evocations, my husband, Fausto Olivares, painter. Fausto Olivares Cózar and Sérvula Palacios Cózar lived in the Magdalena district...
favourite, Olivares – issued instructions to his ambassadors to seek a peace treaty. The Peace of Westphalia, delivered by Olivares' replacement Luis de Haro...
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