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Don Pedro Mexican Restaurant

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Don Pedro is a Mexican restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. The readers of the San Antonio Express-News have several times voted it the best Mexican restaurant in San Antonio.

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Don Pedro Mexican Restaurant
Southwest Military Drive, San Antonio

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Southwest Military Drive 1502
78221 San Antonio
Texas, United States
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Portal sculpture at San Jose Y San Miguel De Aguayo

The Portal Sculpture at San Jose Y San Miguel De Aguayo is a façade of the mission’s church in San Antonio, Texas; it is covered in saintly figures made by a Mexican-trained sculptor, Pedro Huizar, who carved the figures during 1770–1775. The figures surround an oval window and a portal where the doors of the church are located. The sculptures on the façade were made in high relief and have a spiritual quality of animation. The façade has a Baroque feel and is decorated or embellished with organic sensuous items. Pedro Huizar’s style can be linked to styles in Spain where the Catholic Baroque churches existed at the same time. Huizar also had a medieval Gothic taste of style and created the façade with dense figural abundance surrounding the church's portal doors and windows. The statue figures that flank the doorways are Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, the parents of Mary, and Mary can be shown directly above the entrance of the church. The church is dedicated to Saint Joseph, the Virgin’s husband. He can be seen above the oval-shaped window. Pedro Huizar started his sculpture in 1770 and finished in the year 1775. The facade can be seen today in its location in San Antonio, Texas. The church itself is known as “Queen of the Missions” and gets this name from the relief carvings on the façade. The complex detailing of the stonewalls, granary, and bastions was completed in 1782. Over the centuries the church of Mission San Jose has become a lasting symbol for Spanish missions across the Southwest. The Mission San Jose church was not always located where it is today. The church was moved two other times due to the temperamental river nearby, but now the church is a showplace in the southwest. A Franciscan inspector called it “the most beautiful church along the entire frontier of New Spain." Today the church is open to the public and has mass scheduled 7 days a week.

Mission San José (Texas)
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Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo is an historic Catholic mission in San Antonio, Texas, United States. The mission was named in part for the Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo, José de Azlor y Virto de Vera. Many buildings on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, borrow architectural elements from those found at Mission San José. The mission was founded on February 23, 1720, because Mission San Antonio de Valero had become overcrowded shortly after its founding with refugees from the closed East Texas missions. Father Antonio Margil received permission from the governor of Coahuila and Texas, the Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo, to build a new mission 5 miles (8 km) south of San Antonio de Valero. Like San Antonio de Valero, Mission San José served the Coahuiltecan Natives. The first buildings, made of brush, straw, and mud, were quickly replaced by large stone structures, including guest rooms, offices, a dining room, and a pantry. A heavy outer wall was built around the main part of the mission, and rooms for 350 Natives were built into the walls.A new church, which is still standing, was constructed in 1768 from local limestone. The mission lands were given to its Natives in 1794, and mission activities officially ended in 1824. After that, the buildings were home to soldiers, the homeless, and bandits. Starting in 1933, the Civil Works Administration and then the Works Progress Administration provided the labor to rebuild and restore the grounds of the mission. Some of the funding for the restoration came from money allotted by the United States for the Texas Centennial Exposition held in Dallas in 1936. The mission walls and Indian quarters were re-built, and the granary was restored. The church facade features from the top: a cross, representing Jesus Christ, St. Joseph (San José) holding the infant Jesus, St. Dominic and St. Francis, Our Lady of Guadalupe (the Virgin Mary), and St. Joachim and St. Anne holding the infant Mary. Located at the south wall of the church sacristy is the Rose Window. Sculptor and significance of the Rose Window is unknown. According to folklore, the window was sculpted by a Spanish master craftsman and artist Pedro Huizar and dedicated it to his sweetheart Rosa who, on her way from Spain to meet with Pedro, lost her life at sea. The Rose Window was sculpted in 1775 and is an example of Baroque architecture in America. Mission San José is now part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. In 2015, along with The Alamo and Mission Concepción, it became one of five missions in San Antonio designated a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization.Today the mission is an active parish, and is staffed by the Order of Friars Minor. The current pastor is Fr. Rogelio Martinez, OFM.