San Javierand the Mountains

In the early 1670’s, with the mission and town of Loreto established, the Jesuit priests who had founded Loreto looked westward at the face of the mountains called The Giants.   They knew there were many indigenous people there, living in what were then green and fertile valleys.   With local guides, they made their way on foot and muleback up the sheer pass that is still today the main route to San Javier.   From the peak of the pass they  went southward until they encountered a narrow valley, surrounded by sheer rock walls and with natural surface water, and there they founded the mission that is called both San Javier and “Vigge Biaundo,” in the language of the indigenous tribesmen.

Today the product of their zeal, and the work over a period of more than a decade of hundreds or even thousands of native workers, is the mission church of San Javier.   The natives are gone – victims for the most part of fgh

 

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