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The following needs editing....Asistencia Santa Rosa de LimaThe site of the Carrillo Adobe was also the site of a Native American village along Chocoalami (Santa Rosa) Creek. Without an archeological examination, the complete history of this site cannot be fully known. It could extend back many thousands of year and involve different ancient peoples.An attempt was made in 1823 to establish a Mission in Santa Rosa but it failed. In about 1828 or 1829 Padre Juan Amoros baptized a Native American girl "Rosa" on the Catholic feast day of Santa Rosa de Lima, thus giving the girl, the creek, and the city its name. On the feast day of Santa Rosa de Lima in 1828, Fr. Juan Amoros was celebrating Mass on a creek bank near the site now occupied by St. Eugene Cathedral. Fr. Juan noticed a group of Native Americans watching a short distance away, and he spoke to them of eternal life in Jesus Christ and the necessity of Baptism. One young woman came forward and asked to be baptized. As he administered the sacrament, Fr. Juan gave her the name Rosa and declared that the creek and the entire area henceforth would be known as Santa Rosa. The Asistencia Santa Rosa de Lima, an outpost never declared a mission, was erected on the site; it consisted of a chapel and a residence. From time to time, priests from the missions in Sonoma and San Rafael would come to say Mass for the members of the family of General Vallejo who settled in the area around 1837. This is an oral tradition...but St. Eugene's Church believed it enough in the 1960's to propose naming a new high school at the site of the Carrillo Adobe after Padre Amoros. The Asistencia Mission records are not available. Some say the records were deliberately destroyed in order to obscure the Carrillo Adobe site's earlier existence as an Asistencia Mission. Mariano Vallejo reported in 1832 there were then two buildings with Padres and a herd of swine at the site of the Asistencia Mission in Santa Rosa. A Mexican court denied a claim by Mariano Vallejo and instead upheld the claim of the Padres to the Asistencia Mission, Santa Rosa de Lima. They did not uphold the Padres' claim to San Vicente near Petaluma, ownership of which was subsequently granted to Vallejo. The Cathedral of St. Eugene was built in 1950, on the site of the Asistencia Santa Rosa de Lima. The Carrillo Adobe (walls still standing, protected under a metal-roofed pole structure) was the first house built in Santa Rosa. It was built in 1837 on her arrival here by the founder of Santa Rosa, Maria Ignacia López de Carrillo, a Spanish widow from San Diego, mother-in-law of Mariano Vallejo. Though insufficiently documented, there is some evidence that Señora Carrillo built her house at what had earlier been a Spanish-Mexican asistencia, or satellite chapel, of the Mission of San Francisco Solano in Sonoma. But even if there had never been this chapel pre-dating the Carrillo Adobe, the importance and antiquity of this place goes back much, much further. |
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