Mission San Xavier Del Bac – New Year in Tucson, Arizona

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    (Jan 2, 2014 Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

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    (Jan 2, 2014 Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

  • MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC was founded in 1692 by a Jesuit missionary, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino. It was then that he became the first non-Indian to visit the village of Wa:k, or “Bac,” as he wrote it.