Show i KI v o GIVES Ml MISSION ono SION BELL B ova kl Alfonso XIII Replaces e p aces Ancestors Ancestor's n s Gift i t Destroyed estro a in In Fi Fire e IreI I II II Ij I r Y j I G t S I 44 r F x m fr l f fv v i i n I k s f i 4 x r f Royal Request Has Been Upheld Daily Dally for Years SA SANTA TA CLAnA Ca Cal NEA VEA EA Ser Ser- Vice Ice Every eventide since the tho day daj 1 In 1738 when the Franciscan padres I received Cd them the bells Jells of ot Santa 1 Clara Mission ha have runS rung And now that one of the tin three OP mission bells sent here by Km Kin King I Carlos of oT Spain has bas been adjudged d completely destroyed by the fire Ire burning the thc mission In 1926 the tho present Spanish monarch Alfonso XIII is replacing the gift of ot his royal ancestor A new bell for tor Santa Clara la Is being cast in the Spanish royal rojal artillery shops Spanish dominion throughout California and th the southwest w-ii w 1 accomplished lar largely ely through the zeal zealot of the Franciscan missionaries to convert the tho In Indians Indiana to the Catholic Catholic Cath Cath- I olic faith Monarchs l gave the time padres assistance In their work v of building the missions missions and ind Spanish troops took possession for Spain as 31 I It t time the e sandaled padres pressed on and andon on When hen three bells betts for fora SanIA a n Clara Mission were were received line here there was a request from the ro royal roal 11 1 donor th that t the they be rung lung at S 8 0 0 e every night as a a. reminder for the faithful to pray for those in purga purga- tory Time Tue padres padre their Indian converts converts con con- verts crts and their successors the successors the Jesuit priests priest and students at Santa Santa Santa San San- ta Clara university university have have faithfully faithful faithful- Ij ly I kept tho the request In several fires the bells have been dragged from tho the ruins ruins and I swung v from Improvised pd belfries In I Rv I s w t 5 wF w- w i F y y i y i. i t G t r. r 4 I t N ll k d M 4 Upper left King Alfonso XIII of Spain Spam who is is sending new bell to Mission Santa Clara Upper right a new view of the restored Mission Santa Clara Below Rev Cornelius McCoy S S. S J. J president of Santa Clara University examining surviving bell from the old Mission the time fire students mounted an unbroken bell while it still was hot that tho the year ear custom might not be broken A second bell was T successfully r recast re- re I cast from the original metal The third was nas worthless And this is the bell Spain's Spain a king Is replacing r |