Cathedral Basilica of San Fernando de Bexar -- San Antonio TX
N 29° 25.493 W 098° 29.659
14R E 549051 N 3255166
The Cathedral Basilica of San Fernando de Bexar, a must-see along the OST in San Antonio TX
Waymark Code: WMXN9E
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/01/2018
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Any OST traveler surely would have stopped to see the amazing Cathedral Basilica of San Fernando de Bexar (at the time, simply Cathedral of San Fernando) along Commerce Street/OST in downtown San Antonio TX. It's the oldest standing church in Texas, and it's where the 31 Canary Islander families who emigrated to San Antonio in 1738 built the first church in Texas. The walls of that first stone church are the walls of the cathedral today.
The Cathedral would have been even more of a draw for OST tourists in 1935-1937, the year that the bones of Alamo defenders were discovered under the floor of the Cathedral, and the year they were put on display. In 1937 the bones of the Alamo dead were reinterred into a marble ossuary at the front of the Cathedral, where they remain today.
The OST travels through Bexar county on several roads, from East to west as follows: (Source: Bexar County GIS Map of the OST (
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From the Guadalupe-Bexar-County line:
Seguin Road to N New Braunfels Ave (east side of San Antonio)
N New Braunfels to E Commerce (downtown SA)
E/W Commerce to N Flores St (heading NW out of downtown)
N Flores St - Fredericksburg Rd
Fredericksburg Rd - I-10 WB frontage roads
I-10 WB FRs - Boerne Stage Road
Boerne Stage road to Bexar-Kendall County line
For more on the OST in San Antonio see: (
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