2006-12-22 04:59:34 · 15 answers · asked by Suits 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Living in Ventura County, California... I know that Buenaventura means "Good Fortune". I think "San" is short for Saint.
Here is an exerpt from the link below:
Commonly known as Ventura, the City of San Buenaventura is indeed, as its Spanish name implies, the "city of good fortune."
Founded in 1792 by Father Juan Junipero Serra, Ventura is a seaside community with a small town's heart and entrepreneurial sprit. Perched on the edge of the Pacific Ocean between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Ventura enjoys a Mediterranean climate, vast environmental treasures, and rich recreational and business opportunities that make it an ideal location to live, work, and raise a family.
2006-12-22 05:11:09 · answer #1 · answered by Cambria 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is a place in Mexico and also a Mission.
The founding of San Buenaventura Mission was foreshadowed well over two centuries ago on the Spanish isle of Mallorca, when a devout Franciscan priest, who was a brilliant scholar and professor of theology, earnestly prayed that he might be permitted to forsake his comfortable circumstances to take up the Lord’s work among the aborigines in the New World. The hoped-for answer to his prayers came on Palm Sunday, March 30, 1749.
Thirty-three years and one day later the zealous priest, Fray Junipero Serra- who had been subjected to painful sufferings and several brushes with death during his missionary ministry – raised the Cross at "la playa de la canal de Santa Barbara" (the beach of the Santa Barbara Channel) on Easter Morning, March 31, 1782. Assisted by Padre Pedro Benito Cambon, he celebrated a High Mass, preached on the Resurrection, and dedicated a Mission to San Buenaventura (St. Bonaventure). It had been planned as the third in the chain of twenty-one Missions founded by Padre Serra but was destined to be the ninth and last founded during his lifetime, and one of six he personally dedicated.
Under the direction of Padre Cambon, whom Padre Serra left in charge of the new Mission, a seven-mile-long aqueduct was constructed to bring Ventura River water to the Mission. With plentiful water the Mission was able to maintain flourishing orchards and gardens, which were described by English navigator George Vancouver as the finest he had seen.
More on the next link: www.sanbuenaventuramission.org/
2006-12-22 06:00:27 · answer #2 · answered by Martha P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saint Good Adventure
2006-12-22 11:52:12 · answer #3 · answered by Dionisia G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saint Good Adventure
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Saint Goodadventure
2006-12-22 06:14:58 · answer #4 · answered by Devin O 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be a saint because it has the "San"or something like that.. And the translation might be... Saint good adventure... Because San is saint (or something like that) Buena is good and aventura is adventure...
2006-12-22 06:08:46 · answer #5 · answered by mayelaine2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saint Good Adventure"
2006-12-22 05:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by 1978nevaeh 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It means Saint Blessed literlay it means Saint good adventure but does that sound catholic to you??
2006-12-22 05:08:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Bonaventure
Literal translation- Good coming/arrival
2006-12-22 05:03:05 · answer #8 · answered by Twinki 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
San means saint. Buena means good. Ventura means venture.. So, Saint good venture., Spanish is so easy.
2006-12-22 05:05:32 · answer #9 · answered by momonster 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
what or who is san buenaventura ?
2006-12-22 05:02:08 · answer #10 · answered by nippy115 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋