Colleen Swain: Local Heritage, Universal Value

Arts + Culture Jun 16, 2017

Mission San Jose was founded in 1720 and quickly became a social center in the frontier of New Spain. Many regarded it as the “Queen of the Missions” and the “Showplace of the Southwest.” Hundreds of years later, it was still being utilized as a local church. Among its parishioners was Colleen Swain, a child from the Southside of San Antonio.