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The name of my mission is Santa Clara De Asis. Santa Clara’s mission is located in Santa Clara College on the Alameda, in the city of Santa Clara. Santa Clara was the first mission named after a woman. Mission Santa Clara de Asis was founded on January 12, 1777 by Father Junipero Serra President of the California Mission Chain. The mission was established to protect the San Francisco Bay area from the Russians or English. Missions were started in hopes of attracting local California Indians to live and work at the mission and to convert to Christianity. Mission Santa Clara de Asís was first founded on the banks of the Guadalupe River; it was made out of wood and thatch. This was the first of five different locations. During the first two years the church was flooded. They quickly constructed a temporary church made of adobe. It took them three years to build the third Mission Santa Clara de Asís which was known as one of the most beautiful missions in all California. This third mission had beautiful paintings and many fine details. But the earthquake of 1812 and 1818 destroyed the church. Again the missionaries had a fourth temporary church. The fifth church was completed in 1825; it had its ceiling painted by Agusti