The Coming of the Padres

The Coming of the Padres
Directed byLorimer Johnston
StarringSydney Ayres
Perry Banks
Louise Lester
Jacques Jaccard
Jack Richardson
Vivian Rich
Harry van Meter
Distributed byMutual Film
Release date
  • March 21, 1914 (1914-03-21)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Coming of the Padres is a 1914 American silent short Western film directed by Lorimer Johnston. The film stars Sydney Ayres, Perry Banks, Louise Lester, Jacques Jaccard, Jack Richardson, Vivian Rich, and Harry van Meter. Motography reported that the film would be "pictorially reproducing the founding of the Santa Barbara Mission by Padre Junipero Serra. [...] The production will not be an exclusively religious one, but will introduce much of interest of early California life."