Padres of bygone days peacefully fingered their rosaries in this picturesque cloister.
The “Rose Window” of the San Jose Sacristy is said to be the work of one Pedro Huizar who toiled on it for five years. Legend has it that an unhappy romance caused the artist to pour his heart and soul into the design.
This cloister garden at San Jose no doubt abounded in native trees, flowers and shrubs just as it does today.
The old Mission Mill (below) has been reconstructed on its original foundations.
Lookouts were provided above each of the four gates entering the plaza at San Jose. Unfriendly Indians, however, seem to have seldom bothered the mission.
