Mission San Franscico Xavier de Najera

This short-lived mission was a promise kept. The Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo had pledged a separate mission for the Ranchería Grande Indians when he secured the services of one of their chiefs, Juan Rodríguez, as guide for his expedition. He founded it for them on March 12, 1722, one league south of San Antonio de Valero. It endured with little success until 1726, when it was merged with Valero, and in 1731 its lands were regranted to Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña Mission, which still stands to the south.

What the plaque says

Mission San Franscico Xavier de Najera Established in 1722. Its Indian neophytes, few in number, passed into the care of the missionaries at San Antonio de Valero in 1726. The land was later granted to the Mission Nuestra Senora De la Purisima Conception De Acunia. Reestablished in this vicinity in 1731.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission Concepción — 0.5 mi
  A stone church dedicated in 1755 that has never fallen into ruin, its convento ceilings still painted, and the ground where the Texas Revolution's fight for San Antonio began.
• San Antonio Missions National Historical Park — 1.7 mi
  Four working parish churches on the Mission Trail south of downtown, with the visitor center at Mission San Jose, the Queen of the Missions, and the descendants who still worship there.
• King William Historic District — 2.1 mi
  Mission farmland turned German merchants' quarter on the San Antonio River, renamed in World War I, then saved by a neighbor who restored fourteen houses, starting with his own.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — 2.6 mi
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.

More markers nearby

• Old Mill on the Pajalache Acequia — 1.0 mi
• Silvestre Revueltas — 1.7 mi
• Guenther's Upper Mill, Site of — 2.2 mi
• King William Neighborhood — 2.3 mi