Mission San Juan Capistrano Treasure Legend

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Mission San Juan Capistrano Treasure Legend

Lost Treasure TX • Bexar County County
Description
South San Antonio legend of a Nazoni mission cache at San Juan Capistrano — the least developed of the five San Antonio missions, secularized in 1794.
Historical Notes
San Juan Capistrano was the East Texas San José de los Nazonis mission relocated in 1731. Its large church was never completed. Father Francis Bouchu restored the 1756 chapel in the 1850s. As the smallest of the San Antonio chain, San Juan had fewer stone structures but maintained granaries and Indian quarters. Abandoned-worksite lore imagines construction funds and church plate cached when the unfinished church project stalled. Coordinates mark Mission San Juan in San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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