PAGEANT COMING SOON

Old Adobe Mission 

Old Town Scottsdale

Saturday, December 8, 2012

4:00 PM-7:00 PM

3821 North Brown Avenue - SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA!

The Miracle of the Roses is a pageant to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Patroness of the Americas.  The celebration will include folkloric dancing, singing, refreshments and a play recreating the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego in Mexico on December 12th, 1531.

Image:  Special Intentions to Our Lady of Guadalupe painted by Frank Ybarra.

EARLY DAYS

EARLY PHOTO - DATE UNKNOWN

LOOKING AT THE INSIDE

The interior of the Old Adobe Mission is simple, as one would expect of a church built by volunteer Mexican laborers who were not construction workers by trade.  A local businessman, Robert Evans, who owned the Jokake Inn, helped the Mexican immigrants with their church project.

Evans owned a construction company and he designed the building and loaned foremen to supervise the construction after their work hours.  The priest for the parish obtained a gift of $1,000 from the Extension Society of Chicago to pay for the roof, which is made of heavy timbers that are connected to buttresses on the outside to support their weight.

The Extension Society was given the naming rights in exchange for their donation, and at their request the official name of the Mission is  Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

OCTOBER 24th, 2012