Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
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 A view of Mission San Juan Capistrano in April of 2005. At left is the façade of the first adobe church with its added espadaña. Behind the campanario, or "bell wall" is the "Sacred Garden." The Mission has earned a reputation as the "Loveliest of the Franciscan Ruins." [1][2]
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| HISTORY | |
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| Location: | Oceanside, California |
| Name as Founded: | La Misión de San Luis, Rey de Francia [3] |
| English Translation: | The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France |
| Namesake: | King Louis IX [4] |
| Nickname(s): | "King of the Alta California Missions" [5] |
| Founding Date: | June 13, 1798 [6] |
| Founded By: | Father Fermín Lasuén [7] |
| Founding Order: | Eighteenth [4] |
| Military District: | First [8][9] |
| Native Tribe(s): Spanish Name(s): |
Kumeyaay, Quechnajuichom Diegueño, Luiseño |
| Native Place Name(s): | Quechinga [10] |
| SPIRITUAL RESULTS | |
| Baptisms: | 5,399 [11] |
| Confirmations: | |
| Marriages: | 1,335 [11] |
| Burials: | 2,718 [11] |
| Neophyte Population: | 2,788 [12][13] |
| DISPOSITION | |
| Secularized: | 1834 [4] |
| Returned to the Church: | 1865 [4] |
| Governing Body: | Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego |
| Current Use: | Franciscan College / Museum |
| Coordinates: | 33°15'63"N, 117°00'66"W |
| National Historic Landmark: | #NPS–70000142 |
| Date added to the NRHP: | 1970 |
| California Historical Landmark: | #239 |
| Web Site: | http://www.sanluisrey.org/ |
- ↑ (CC) Photo: Robert A. Estremo
- ↑ Saunders and Chase, p. 65
- ↑ Leffingwell, p. 27
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Krell, p. 273
- ↑ Yenne, p. 158
- ↑ Yenne, p. 156
- ↑ Ruscin, p. 196
- ↑ Forbes, p. 202
- ↑ Engelhardt 1920, pp. v, 228: "The military district of San Diego embraced the Missions of San Diego, San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and San Gabriel..."
- ↑ Ruscin, p. 195
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Krell, p. 315: as of December 31, 1832; information adapted from Engelhardt's Missions and Missionaries of California.
- ↑ Krell, p. 315: as of December 31, 1832; information adapted from Engelhardt's Missions and Missionaries of California. Mission San Luis Rey was by far the most dominant of the Alta California missions at this time in terms of the number of neophytes attached to it.
- ↑ Johnson, et al: "In contrast to baptismal patterns documented at missions in much of the rest of California, Mission San Luis Rey appears to have coexisted with nearby native communities for a much longer period of time without fully absorbing their populations...This may be the result of a conscious decision by the head missionary at Mission San Luis Rey, Fr. Antonio Peyri, to permit a certain number of baptized Luiseños to remain living apart from the mission with their unconverted relatives at their rancherías [villages]. The native communities in this way gradually became converted into mission ranchos at Santa Margarita, Las Flores, Las Pulgas, San Jacinto, Temecula, Pala, etc."