It wasn’t even called The West—was still the ‘New World’—when the foundation was laid.
By all rights, there shouldn’t be a San Xavier del Bac sitting gleaming white and irresistible just outside Tucson, Arizona.
It should have crumbled decades ago under the harsh Sonoran Desert sun.
This certainly shouldn’t be a functioning mission, as it has been since Franciscans built the magnificent two-tower church in 1756. (It replaced the simple lean-to “mission” Father Eusebio Franci
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