Padre Damian Massanet's Table
by Rolando Briseno
This sculpture symbolizes the first Mass celebrated in San Antonio on June 13, 1691. The day before, the first Spanish expedition to march across Texas to the Louisiana border reached a stream the Indians called Yanaguana -- “Place of Restful Waters” -- which the Spaniards led by Captain Domingo de Teran and Padre Damian Massanet, O.F.M., named the Rio de San Antonio “because it was his day” -- the Feast Day of the great St. Anthony of Padua.
June 13, 1991
Courtesy hmdb.org
