A little girl will be baptized into the Catholic faith at Mission Dolores this afternoon, and 10 generations of an almost forgotten people will be there - at least in spirit.
Her name is Amaya Fabrio-Irwin, and she is a direct descendant of the Ohlone and Miwok people who lived in the Bay Area before Europeans came and changed it forever.
After the baptism ceremony, which follows a 5 p.m. Mass in celebration of San Francisco's 233rd birthday, the congregation will move in procession to the mission cemetery next door, where a redwood grave marker honoring Amaya's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents was put up Friday. They are Faustino, a Bay Miwok Indian who was baptized at Mission Dolores in 1794, and his wife, Obulinda, an Ohlone, baptized into the Catholic faith in 1802.
The ceremony and the marker commemorate a complex and nearly forgotten history.
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