Mission Santa Clara

Again, Clare, with her monstrance occupies the central niche above the altar at the church named after her.

Interestingly Santa Clara is on the campus of the University of Santa Clara, a Jesuit institution. It was the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish empire in 1767 which opened the door to the Franciscans founding the California Missions

The high narrow windows so typical of the early California Missions