Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi

The mission location was originally a native Sobaipuri or O'odham (Upper Pima) settlement, which Eusebio Kino visited in 1690. The mission was established in 1691, with Juan de San Martín as resident priest. By the late 1690s, the mission consisted of a church, a carpentry shop, and a blacksmith's area. Under Jesuit supervision, Pima laborers built a small chapel in 1701, using adobe bricks and basic tools. The first Franciscan priest, Juan Crisóstomo Gil de Bernabé, arrived in 1768 and took up residency at the mission with about fifty families. The Apaches attacked in 1769 and killed all but two of the few Spanish soldiers guarding the mission; in 1770 and 1771 the natives continued their attacks and the cabecera was relocated to Tumacácori. Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi was abandoned for the last time by 1776. == Missionaries ==

• 1691–1701: Juan de San Martín • 1701–1732: no resident priest • 1732–1733: Juan Bautista Grazhoffer • 1734–1737: no resident priest • 1737–1740: Alexandro Rapicani • 1740–1744: Joseph de Torres Perea • 1744–1745: Ildefonso de la Peña • 1745–1751: Joseph Garrucho • 1751–1760: Francisco Xavier Pauer • 1760–1768: no resident priest • 1768–1771: Juan Crisóstomo Gil de Bernabé ==Archaeology==

The convento and church have been excavated by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society and the National Park Service. Historian John Kessell has written a comprehensive history of Guevavi. Archaeologist Deni Seymour has excavated a portion of the indigenous Sobaipuri-O'odham settlement of Guevavi and Father Kino's "neat little house and church." Tumacácori National Historical Park The Mission's ruins were incorporated into Tumacácori National Historical Park in 1990. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990., Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail The Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi is a designated site of the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, a National Park Service area in the United States National Trails System. ==See also==