I really like the Mission San José and also the aqueduct, I'm planning on going there when I get the chance!

So many times in the middle of your videos, I think to myself “I’ve been there.” It is so nice to be able to go out and explore even if it’s only virtually. You do a good job!

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate that.

Holy crap! I live in SA and I didn’t know some of this history! Thanks for sharing I’ll have to go explore!

So many nice memories brought back watching this episode. I lived in San Antonio in 2001.

You have taken me back to my childhood days of the 50's, I grew up near by, as kids we would ride our bikes during the summer months and hang out, most of all go swimming near by. Thanks for sharing..

2019 my wife and I were married at mission Espada. A beautiful church.

Visited San Antonio in 2011 and loved it. The missions are beautiful. I didn’t want to leave and long to return. Wonderful place.

Great video...... Thanks for the tour..... Now I want to visit personally....... Your state is beautiful.....

I haven’t visited since I was a kid & how sad that I haven’t taken my children! I can’t wait to spend a day exploring the missions

I'm proud to be living in san Antonio tx,very nice video brother 👍

I was very pleasantly surprised when I got the chance to visit the area quite a few years now...if you get a chance, get out to the river walk and for sure, the Alamo...great tour...thanks so much!

I got married on the river walk. Staid at a b&b on the river walk. The day before we did the mission bicycle tour ride on a tandem and visited all the missions. So SA has a special place in my heart.

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

The river walk is a magical place.

I moved to San Antonio 2 yrs ago and Im always at the missions riding my bike down the river trail. Thanks, Fact: the cloth that Jesus is wearing while hanging on the cross in the front of Church Mission Espada to the right is a piece of Pope John Paul II.

@luperamos7307

Жыл бұрын

Didn't they want to connect all the missions via a bike trail that even runs from downtown San Antonio? It would be nice to have more bike friendly cities, but especially in oil rich Texas that is hard to picture.

I was baptized at San Fernando Cathedral and lived about a block away from Mission Concepcion when I was an infant. Thanks for the video!

Love the history ❤️❤️💕

I have been to most of these and they are definitely worth seeing.

I look forward to watching your videos. You do an excellent job of filming and talking about Texas Hope to move back soon

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great compliment. I really appreciate that.

the alamo was so fun to go see

Watching a lot of your old videos again, and this one is a favorite.

I love the missions, been to all of them! I want to go back! 🙏🏻

Great narration again - your a real pro on KZread. I also never realised how much historical culture you have in the U.S. ! cheers.

I proposed to my wife in front of that church!! ⛪ 💒

@michaelsanchez8489

3 жыл бұрын

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@annabelles1622

3 жыл бұрын

Awwe! ❤👍

@rickamc3521

3 жыл бұрын

I married mine at one lol. Congratulations

@johnstauffer1032

Жыл бұрын

One of my aunts and first husband were marriage at Mission San Jose y Miguel de Aguyo.

Excited to see this video. I visited the missions last year before quarantine. Beautiful and impressive. Thank you for the interesting history and facts. We just took a trip to Garner State Park. have you been there? Great hiking.

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for stopping by. Yes I have been to Garner. It's a beautiful place.

Interest and beautiful. Thank for sharing.

Wonderful video, thank you.🤗👍🌺

Looks like a good base from which to explore Texas. That river walk looks super cool.

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

For sure. Not sure what restrictions are in place today but they used to offer boat rides through there.

Hello from Oregon! I really enjoy your videos.

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for stopping by. You're welcome any time.

Beautiful video. thanks!

I really enjoyed this video I don't know if you forgot to mention but a long from the Alamo to the last mission Esparza there is Bike and Hike walking trails along the San Antonio River very peaceful Good walking trail

Great work thank you 😊

My hometown!

I enjoy your voice...smooth and interesting. It reminds me of the old Disney documentaries I enjoyed when I was little.

Missions were built throughout this area to Christianize the indigenous people. All cities today with 'San'/saint were settled by Spaniards. Los Angeles/the angels. Colorado(red)river. St(San)Augustine in Florida with its massive fort, Castillo(castle) de San Marcos is the oldest. Florida comes from La Florida, place of flowers.

I've been to all the mission in the San Antonio area and Goliad. They look as if they could last indefinitely if not hit with a massive earthquake.

San Antonio truly is one of a kind. Its Spanish influences are very strong which gives it a unique culture among the other major cities of Texas. The missions are absolutely beautiful and give a good perspective on the lives of the missionaries and natives back in the olden days.

@mariocisneros911

Жыл бұрын

California too has many

The Spanish/Los Españoles explored Southeastern United States as well as the Southwest to California. The "Mississippi" was named Rio Espiritu Santo. The Gulf of "Mexico" was Golfo de Nueva España. Somehow everything was renamed & Anglicized.

I was just there a few months ago. I go there to walk around.

Delicious Spanish Colonial. 😄👍

Beautiful missions I wish u would have gotten closer to the altars!

Beautiful...i've read that one of the missions was painted in a very interesting style and had some "moorish" architectural elements ...

The last time I was in SA I attended Mass at the Cathedral but did not have time to see the other missions. Maybe next time.

This is just an observation and not a criticism, but people tend to forget that there are five missions in San Antonio, counting the Alamo, or Mission San Antonio de Valero. I think it's because the Alamo is a tourist site while the other missions are still functioning churches with regular services.

You said "Looks like it's straight out of Europe." Actually that is exactly what I was thinking throughout your whole video.

It would be nice when you show towns if you told population and showing homes are they private or can you tour.

That little boy and girl are adorable. I'm guessing yours. Too cute.

How were you able to do the river walk without a LOT of people in the video?

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

Early in the morning

Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Estebanico, and 2 other Spaniards crossed Texas in the 1520's, almost 200 years before the Missions were established.

@secretsoftexas6872

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I mention Cabeza de Vaca in my recent Galveston video.

Me puedes mostrar el cuerpo del sr san jose en la rumba por fav gracias y que dios te bendiga

Jim Bowie was not a Texan, he was from the north

San Antonio looked a little ran down last time I was there but it should be more nice and it’s history a little more restored and nicer

Wow, San Antonio is beautiful and seems so full of history. I've only ever been to Houston so I think I just assumed that every Texas city is an ugly hellscape like it.

@secretsoftexas6872

2 жыл бұрын

Certain portions are for sure

@luperamos7307

Жыл бұрын

Been to Houston twice and found it ugly as well. Just giant freeway systems and large housing developments all over. Not even public parks I saw.

I have some questions ! If Americans know , that the Spaniards were in the USA way before the English, why do they get shocked when they hear Spanish? Plus why aren’t Spaniards considered Europeans by so many Americans, when they come from the same place as the English (Europe) And last one why do they often confuse non white Latin Americans and white Spaniards ?

@elmaje9119

3 ай бұрын

Your question is kind of stupid. The Spaniards are a Western European country and a people that, historically, the majority have always been white. And there are millions of white Latin Americans too, or do you think Latin American means mixed race? The United States is full of Africans and mulatto people like several Latin American countries. Latin America comes because the Spanish, a people from Latin Europe, brought Greco-Roman culture, language, law and civilization to the new world.

Viva España y la Hispanidad

Nada más que maravillas todo eso le pertenecía a México

@cherrera1010

3 жыл бұрын

Primero a España, los estúpidos masones rompieron el imperio, con funestas consecuencias. Ahora México es un satélite de The City of London, subyugado igual que el resto de las republiquetas al sur de la frontera.

@luperamos7307

Жыл бұрын

E inmediatamente lo perdieron después de que los españoles les regalaron ese territorio. Perteneció a México por poco tiempo. Pertenecía a los indígenas antes del genocidio.

@pacsu31

Жыл бұрын

@@luperamos7307¿ Las misiones pertenecían a los indígenas? ¡ No me diga! ¿Las construyeron ellos?🤣 Y para que esta noche se acueste un poco menos ignorante, le explico algo : En esas misiones vivían y trabajaban esencialmente INDIGENAS cristanizados y algunos soldados y religiosos españoles, pero sobre todo INDIGENAS. Así que busque quienes cometieron ese "genocidio", porque seguro que no fueron los que Ud. pretende.

@luperamos7307

Жыл бұрын

@@pacsu31 Presta atención la próxima vez que leas. La palabra clave aquí es territorio.

@pacsu31

Жыл бұрын

@@luperamos7307 Presta tu atención la próxima vez que comentes algo. Este video y el comentario de @Erasmo Mendez al que has respondido va de "Missions of San Antonio", no del territorio en el que se encuentran, que precisamente poco o nada tiene de maravilloso (lo conozco muy bien...)...y aun menos de "genocidios" sino de todo lo contrario...que ya cansáis algunos con tanta cantinela machacona de "genocidios" y otras mamarrachadas. Los indígenas desaparecieron de esos territorios justamente cuando se abandonaron las misiones.

he was married in 1987?? i'm sure you meant 1887.

This is American now and should be preserved

Hispania; since the year 218 before Christ (BC).

We should do better by preservation of this history

Jesus Christ died for our sins

@johnfast5852

10 ай бұрын

Behold the Lamb of God ..

yes the control of this lands, was the first plan, but the second most forgotten is the christianacion of the indian, apaches, who without doubt help build the missions

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The Mexicans tried to settle Texas for two hundred years, but failed, which is why they asked Whites to settle Texas for them. There were never more than four thousand Mexicans in Texas until after the country of Texas was formed, most of them were on the Rio Grande river, the border between Mexico and Texas. When the country of Texas was established there were 22,000 Whites, 20,000 Comanches, and 4,000 Mexicans in Texas.

@thomaswayneward

3 жыл бұрын

@@faragatanfarra I don't use historical terms very much. I like to just use the language my parents taught me. I have never heard a Mexican call themselves anything except Mexican and I have lived with and around them for 75 years.

@cherrera1010

3 жыл бұрын

Like they did not know the English pirates were after the Spanish possesion! Haha yea right!

@michaljezek2664

2 жыл бұрын

1. Mexicans didn't exist back then. 2. Mexican is not race. 3. First white people in Texas were Spaniards.

@thomaswayneward

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaljezek2664 Mexican is what they call themselves now. Yes Mexican is not a race, so what; everyone in Mexico called themselves Mexican, as do the Mexican Americans. The first white people in Texas were Spaniards, so what? What I said in my statement are undisputed historical facts; most people just don't know the facts.

@michaljezek2664

2 жыл бұрын

​@@thomaswayneward So you could say that Americans were settled in thirteen colonies from Europe? No they weren't back then (in 17th century). People who settled in Texas - now called "Tejanos". They don't like when people called them Mexicans because Tejano culture is different. Otherwise yes the rest of your post is true.

Very Primitive at best

They're hait

Started with the death of Native Americans.

@secretsoftexas6872

3 жыл бұрын

See my video about the Caddo published on week prior

As a Tejano, as much as I love the history of Texas, missions are nothing more then re education camps. Lets be real.

@werewolf5

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rio_Seco Your ignorance is astounding, and fascinating at the same time.

@HardRockMaster7577

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know how these tall cathedrals and missions were actually built. Were there lots of stone masons from Spain living in Texas?? Did the Monks build these themselves?? Inquiring minds want to know.

@gilbertodominguez5212

2 жыл бұрын

@@HardRockMaster7577 The religious people were all educated men with various levels of learning and skill. They had classical training and provided the brainpower while the Native Americans did the physical work.

originally the Alamos 4 front columns were of women like the temple in Greece. History is a lie . Tartarian old world structure not Spanish mission crap lol