The mission is personal to her. And she wants others to know its history. Since March, Gallego, a retired Tucson ... the book “San Xavier del Bac – Portrait of a Desert Church,” by the ...

The mission is about 9 miles south of downtown Tucson and is accessible via Interstate 19 and San Xavier Road. The church is free to ... chain closes its last AZ location after 2 decades Jewish ...

Jill Schildhouse Sitting just south of Tucson on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Mission San Xavier del ... this active Roman Catholic Church is a National Historic Landmark.

Or you can visit Tucson, Arizona, to tour San Xavier del Bac Mission church, the lovingly restored cathedral in the desert. One of the oldest churches in the American Southwest, San Xavier del Bac ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — San Xavier del Bac Mission is an ... But work continues both inside the historic church as well as out front. "The mission, that's the icon of the city really," artist ...

A historic mission south of Tucson ... church was treated and covered with a tinted sandy cement-based plaster, said Starr Herr-Cardillo, conservation project manager for the Patronato San Xavier.

Cleaning crews are removing extensive graffiti from the outside of a historic mission south of Tucson ... wall. Church officials discovered the vandalism at the San Xavier Mission at sunrise ...

Mission San Xavier del Bac in Tucson, known as the Dove of the Desert, has been vandalized by graffiti. Steffanie Koeneman, spokeswoman for the Diocese of Tucson, verified the damage. Cleanup ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — San Xavier Mission is one of southern Arizona's top tourist destinations, but it also still functions as a church more than two centuries after it was first built.

Jill Schildhouse Sitting just south of Tucson on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Mission San Xavier del ... this active Roman Catholic Church is a National Historic Landmark.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Mission San Xavier in Tucson is set to undergo its ... scaffolding could go up by late fall around the iconic church’s east tower. Workers will spend the next two years ...