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- 1920 (Creation)
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1 p.; clipping
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A document outlining the administrative history and parish statistics for St. Anthony’s Church in Mendocino, California, following the Capuchin Order taking charge of the mission and all Coast Missions in August 1903. It provides a chronological list of the friars in charge from 1903 through October 1920, naming Father Raymond as the leader from December 1912 to July 1916. The document notes that a station exists at Caspar with no physical church building, where Mass is held once a month. It concludes with specific parish data, listing a total Catholic population of 440 (378 in Mendocino and 62 in Caspar), historical tallies of 360 baptisms, 86 marriages, and 8 converts, while explicitly stating that there are no Catholic schools or convents in the parish. The document covers the period when the English Capuchins were responsible for the mission in Mendocino County.