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Mission Santa Cruz, founded in present-day Santa Cruz, California, on September 25, 1791, by Father Fermín Lasuén, a Basque missionary of the Franciscan order, is named for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, adopting the name given to a nearby creek by the missionary priest Juan Crespi, who had accompanied the explorer Gaspar de Portolá when he camped on the banks of the San Lorenzo River on October 17, 1769.
As with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz, the twelfth mission in the California mission chain, serves as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, initially the Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the region.
As with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz, the twelfth mission in the California mission chain, serves as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, initially the Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the region.