Editing San Elizario, Texas (section)

=== Presidio San Elzeario ===

In 1789, the site of the old hacienda Tiburcios became the new site where the Spaniards relocated a fort called [[Presidio de San Elzeario]]. It had originally been established in 1774, located farther south in the [[El Paso Valley]] near the site of modern [[El Porvenir, Chihuahua|El Porvenir]].  It had been moved north to be better able to protect the Camino Real and the towns of to its north, [[Socorro, Texas|Socorro]] and [[Ysleta, Texas|Ysleta]].<ref name=Torok>Torok, George D., From the Pass to the Pueblos, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 2012</ref>{{rp|46}}

The town that grew up around the presidio took its name San Elzeario, or San Elceario (Spanish for Saint Elzear); [[Elzéar of Sabran|Saint Elzéar of Sabran]] is the Roman Catholic patron saint of soldiers.  After the Americans acquired the town at the end of the [[Mexican American War]], its name was Americanized as San Elizario.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjs05|title=SAN ELIZARIO, TX|first=KOHOUT, MARTIN|last=DONELL|date=15 June 2010|website=www.tshaonline.org|access-date=7 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.epcounty.com/history/missiontrail.htm |title=Epcounty.com - History - Mission Trail |access-date=2013-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101022062117/http://www.epcounty.com/history/missiontrail.htm |archive-date=2010-10-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=Torok/>{{rp|46–47}}