Alamo / El Alamo
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Image and permission received from Ihor Prociuk (e-mail of 8 September 2008)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nadya Helena Prociuk, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Nadya Helena Prociuk
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 December 2020)
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nadya Helena Prociuk, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by Nadya Helena Prociuk
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from Ihor Prociuk (e-mail of 8 September 2008)
INFORMATION
FontID: 13786ALA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Museum and Inventory Number: Long Barracks Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Church/Chapel: Mision Franciscana de San Antonio de Valero
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Country Name: United States
Location: Texas
Font Location in Church: in a museum
Century and Period: 18th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Nadya Helena and Ihor Prociuk for the photographs of this object
Church Notes: "The Mission San Antonio de Valero, established in San Antonio in 1718, was but one of many Catholic missions organized as part of the official Spanish plan to Christianize native Americans and colonize northern New Spain. Franciscan monks began building on the present site, on east side of the San Antonio River, about 1724 and remained there until 1793, when the Spanish government legally dissolved the mission and distributed ownership of its lands and buildings." [source: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/adp/history/mission_period/valero/valero.html [accessed 8 September 2008]
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The museum of the former Franciscan Mission of San Antonio de Valero, better known as "El Alamo" holds a stone vessel labelled as follows: "Baptismal Font /
This stone baptismal font / is believed to have been used / at Mission San Antonio / de Valero. / Donor / William Freeman, Jr." The object is shaped like a short shaft the upper end of which has been hollowed. The more likely use of this object, if it indeed had a church function is likely that of a holy-water stoup, probably not a baptismal font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round