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Fray Antonio Margil de Jesús, founder of Mission San Jose, was born August 18, 1657, in Valencia, Spain, and died August 06, 1726, in Mexico City, Mexico. He received his holy orders at age twenty-five in Spain. For the next forty-three years he traveled by foot as far south as Panama and as far north as Texas and Louisiana. He labored and offered everything for the conversion of souls, seeking to plant the seed of faith through the cross of Jesus. Guided by the virtue of humility, he considered himself "Nothing" and signed his letters with the expression, "La Misma Nada" (Nothingness Itself). In 1720 he founded in San Antonio the most successful of all the Texas missions, Mission San Jose.
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