She’s more than two centuries old, give or take a few years. When she arrived to Mission San Xavier del Bac, no one’s sure. What Matilde Rubio and Tim Lewis were sure of, however, was that the statue of the Immaculate Conception needed lots of detailed attention. Read...
It is with great sadness we share the passing of Bernard “Bunny” Fontana, one of the co-founders of Patronato San Xavier. Bunny, whose career spanned six decades, received a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Arizona (UA) in 1960. He was a renowned...
By Carmen Duarte. Mission San Xavier del Bac was named to the 2016 World Monuments Watch — a list of cultural heritage sites that are fragile and in need of international attention in hopes of ensuring their future. Read the story
Goal is international attention for 50 cultural heritage sites named to Watch Miles Green, Executive Director, The Patronato | (520) 407-6130 | info@patronatosanxavier.org Daniela Stigh, Communications Director, World Monuments Fund | 646-424-9582 | dstigh@wmf.org |...
By Mitchell Riley. Mission San Xavier del Bac, sometimes called The White Dove of the Desert, sits ten miles south of downtown Tucson on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation. Watch the story.
