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James Bigley explores how Spanish missions helped shape Texas land boundaries and ownership patterns. Catholic devotees were stunned when an apparition of Jesus appeared in the clouds following a Mass ...

Celestis, which recently conducted a mission from California, will send cremated remains or human DNA to outer space for ...

Celestis says it's the 1st company to offer space burials. Some remains, from "Star Trek" actors to JFK, have flown to orbit ...

Our reporter, Jessica Pilla is back to exploring must-see spots, now visiting the most popular historical sites in Texas.

Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty A History of Winemaking Texan wine is nothing new, with Spanish missions being recorded as producing Communion wine in the state as early as the 1600s.

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Much of what we think of as native Texas law and lore was actually imported to these old missions by the Franciscans. Our Texas water laws aren’t English; they were derived from Spanish law.

South Texas ranch, home to ruins of Spanish mission, lists for $20M The 2,700-acre Goliad County property was once home to Nuestra Señora del Rosario Mission.

It started life out on May 1st, 1718 as San Antonio River little, and it's founded as one of the missions that's going to bring Catholicism up to Texas and also to establish a foothold for the ...