Mission San Antonio de Padua/Gallery
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(PD) Drawing: Alexander Harmer
When the last missionary at Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Fray Vicente Francisco de Sarría) died in 1835, his body was carried on a litter by loyal neophytes to San Antonio de Padua, some 25 miles away.(PD) Photo: United States Navy
USNS Mission San Antonio (T-AO-119) was the ninth of twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers built during World War II for service in the United States Navy, and the only U.S. Naval vessel to have borne the name.