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The mission was founded in 1776, by the Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Saint John of Capistrano, a 14th-century theologian and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782.
The grounds of Mission San Juan Capistrano has been maintained by the National Park Service as a part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park since the 1980s, and the Archdiocese of San Antonio maintains the church building, parish parking lot, rectory (priest's quarters), and the parish hall (Slattery Hall). The hall is located ...
A plan view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano complex (including the footprint of the "Great Stone Church") prepared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb in 1916. [2] The first priority when beginning a settlement was the location and construction of the church (iglesia).
San Juan Capistrano 33°30′10″N 117°39′46″W / 33.50278°N 117.66278°W / 33.50278; -117.66278 ( Mission San Juan Capistrano The Serra Chapel, built in 1782, is the oldest extant building in California . [ 7 ]
Reconstruction of Acjachemen hut at Mission San Juan Capistrano. A set of highly important Acjachemen villages (Acjachema, Suvit, and Putuidem) were concentrated along the lower San Juan Creek. [12] In 1775, Spanish colonists erected a cross on an Acjachemen religious site before retreating to San Diego due to a revolt at Mission San Diego ...
In 1864 Pio Pico sold the Las Flores ranch to his brother-in-law, Juan Forster, who made it part of a much larger (144,000 acres (580 km 2)) ranch. [12] Las Flores Estancia and the location of the missions at San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, and Pala along with the Santa Ana Estancia are shown above.
Portrait of José de Grácia Cruz, who was the bell ringer at San Juan Capistrano Mission (June 1909), who identified the site of the village. Source: University of Southern California. Libraries and California Historical Society. The population of Acjacheme may have declined after the establishment of Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776.
Today, it is located at 26801 Ortega Highway in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California. The Mission was secularized by the Mexican government in 1833, and returned to the Roman Catholic Church by the American government in 1865. The mission was damaged over the years by a number of natural disasters, but restoration and renovation ...