Sanjón (deep ditch or slough). Also spelled zanjon.
Sanjón de los Moquelumnes (Moquelumne slough).
San José (St. Joseph). See pages [168] and [340].
San José de Buenos Aires (St. Joseph of good airs).
San José y Sur Chiquito (St. Joseph and little south). These are the names of two creeks near Monterey.
San Juan Bautista (St. John the Baptist). See pages [154] and [340].
San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana (St. John canyon, literally “box,” of St. Anne). Deep canyons were often called cajones (boxes).
San Juan Capistrano. See page [35].
San Juan Point (St. John Point). See page [83].
San Julián (St. Julian). This seems to have been a favorite name for saints, since there were twelve who bore it. Only two, however, are of special importance, St. Julian Hospitator, and St. Julian of Rimini. The first had the fearful misfortune to kill his own father and mother through an error, and to make reparation, he built a hospital on the bank of a turbulent stream in which many persons had been drowned. “He constantly ferried travelers over the river without reward, and, one stormy night in winter, when it seemed that no boat could cross the stream, he heard a sad cry from the opposite bank. He went over, and found a youth, who was a leper, dying from cold and weariness. In spite of his disease the saint carried him over, and bore him in his arms to his own bed, and he and his wife tended him till morning, when the leper rose up, and his face was transformed into that of an angel, and he said: ‘Julian, the Lord hath sent me to thee; for thy penitence is accepted, and thy rest is near at hand’.... St. Julian is patron saint of ferrymen and boatmen, of travelers and of wandering minstrels.” Little is known of St. Julian of Rimini except that he “endured a prolonged martyrdom with unfailing courage.”—(Stories of the Saints.) See page [340].