“In the mid-eighteenth century, a group of German Jesuit missionaries tried to convert the desert landscape of Baja California.”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:

Sky Michael Johnston. “‘What is California? Nothing but Innumerable Stones’: German Jesuits, Salvation, and Landscape Building in the California Missions,” Journal of Jesuit Studies 2 no. 1 (2015) 36-55.