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United States Celebrates World Heritage Inscription of San Antonio Missions

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SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States celebrated the World Heritage Inscription of the San Antonio Missions, including the historic Alamo, with a monumental ceremony at Mission San Jose, "the queen of the missions." Descendants of tribes who resided at the missions, along with church parishioners and visitors joined Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, the National Park Service and a delegation of elected officials to honor the story of these missions and their role in United States and World history. As the largest collection of Spanish colonial architecture in the U.S., these 18th century Spanish missions symbolize an era when the world was...

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