Mission San Xavier Del Bac – New Year in Tucson, Arizona
(Jan 2, 2014 Photo by Fung Lin Hall)
(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.