May 11, 2008 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Mission Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California Mission Santa Barbara is located at 12201 Laguna Street in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County, California   Vi vendte næsen nordpå i morges og påbegyndte ferien. Vi rullede ind i Santa Barbara først på eftermiddagen, sendte en venlig tanke til Tue og Lisbeth, og tog ned midt i byen for at se den gamle missionskirke. We headed north this morning, finally starting our vacation. We rolled into Santa Barbara in the early afternoon, sent a friendly thought to Tue and Lisbeth, and went downtown to visit the old Santa Barbara Mission church.     Den gamle Mission Santa Barbara var Californiens tiende mission. Den er bygget af Fader Fermin Francisco de Lasuen i 1782, to år efter Fader Junipero Serras død, ham som havde grundlagt de første ni missionskirker, og den blev bygget for at omvende Chumash-indianerne. Kirken, som den står i dag, er den fjerde kirke bygget her. Den er bygget i 1820 for at erstatte en tidligere kirke, som blev ødelagt i et jordskælv i 1812. Et jordskælv i 1925 beskadigede igen missionen, men denne gang kunne bygningen reddes, og den blev restaureret. The old Mission Santa Barbara was the tenth California mission. It was built by Padre Fermin Francisco de Lasuen in 1782, two years after the death of Padre Junipero Serra, who founded the first nine missions, and it served to convert the Chumash Indians. The present-day church is the fourth church on this site. It was built in 1820 to replace the prior church, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 1812. Another earthquake in 1925 damaged the Mission Church again, but this time the building was salvagable, and was restored. Fader Junipero Serra ~ Padre Junipero Serra

Lavanderia - Et basin, hvor Chumash kvinderne vaskede tøj. Lavanderia - A basin where the Chumash women did laundry.

Indeni kirken ~ Inside the church     Begravelser foran altret ~ Burials in front of the altar

Klosterhaven ~ The Mission Garden     Sankt Frans af Assisi ~ Saint Francis of Assisi     "Han sagde endda, at gartner-munken burde sætte et stykke jord til side i et hjørne til en smuk lille have, hvor han plantede alle slags duftende urter & blomstrende planter, så de på hver deres årstid kan indbyde alle mennesker, der ser dem, til at prise GUD... For enhver skabning siger & bekendtgør, Gud har skabt mig for dig, o menneske." Skt. Frans af Assisi. "He even said that the brother gardener ought to reserve a place in a corner for a beautiful small garden where he put all kinds of aromatic herbs & flowering plants so that they in their season might invite all men who looked at them to praise GOD... For every creature says & proclaims God has created me for you, o man." St. Francis of Assisi.     Køkkenet ~ The kitchen

Munkecelle ~ Friar's room     April ~ The Spud     Kirkegården ~ The cemetery     Australsk Gummifigen fra 1890 ~ Australian Moreton Bay Fig from 1890

På kirkegården er begravet en Chumash indianerkvinde, Juana Maria, som var en af de indianere, der boede på Channel Islands og blev hentet af Spanierne for at blive flyttet til Mission Santa Barbara. Juana Maria sprang overbord, da hun så, at hendes lillebror var blevet efterladt, og siden en hård storm var på vej, forlod skibet hende. Adskillige forsøg på at finde hende mislykkedes, indtil 18 år senere, da nogle jægere tilfældigvis fandt hende på den ellers øde San Nicolas Island, hvor hun sad udenfor sin hytte bygget af hvalknogler og syede med en ben-nål og sælskindstråd. Det tog en måned at overtale hende til at forlade øen og lade sig genforene med sit folk, og da hun endelig samtykkede, viste det sig hurtigt, at der ikke længere var nogen, der kunne hendes sprog, så hun kunne hverken fortælle om sin bror eller om sin egen overlevelse og liv på øen. Syv uger efter, hun blev bragt til Mission Santa Barbara, fik hun dysenteri og døde. Blandt de bøger, der er blevet skrevet om hende, siges en af de bedste at være "Island of the Blue Dolphins" af Scott O'Dell. Den er skrevet i 1960, og blev filmatiseret i 1964. In this cemetery is the grave of a Chumash Indian woman, Juana Maria, who was among those Indians living in the Channel Islands that were rounded up by the Spanish to be transported to Mission Santa Barbara. Juana Maria jumped overboard when she saw that her young brother had been left behind, and the ship abandoned her as an intense storm moved in. Several attempts to find her failed, until 18 years later, when a hunting expedition happened upon her on deserted San Nicolas Island, sitting outside her whale bone house, sewing with a bone needle and seal thread. It took a month to convince her to leave the island to rejoin her people, and when she did, she soon found that there was no longer anybody able to speak her language, so she could answer no questions about her brother or her own survival and life on the island. Seven weeks after she was brought to Mission Santa Barbara she contracted dysentery and died. Among the books that have been written about her one of the best is said to be "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell. It was written in 1960, and was made into a movie in 1964.           Hvid salvie i urtehaven ~ White sage in the herb garden

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