Mission San Lázaro
Spanish Mission in the Sonoran desert
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San Lázaro was a Spanish mission in the Sonoran desert.
Located in the Santa Cruz River valley, the European settlement was founded as a cattle ranch by José Romo de Vivar.[1] The mission was founded by Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino about 1695,[2] and was at various times a visita of Mission Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocóspera, Mission Santa María Suamca, or Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores.[1]
Kino oversaw the building of a mission church in 1706.[1] John Ross Browne sketched the mission in 1864.[2] By the late 1860s, it was deserted due to Apache raids.[3]