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On Pentecost day, May 14, 1769, Serra founded his first mission, Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá, in a mud hut that had served as a makeshift church when friar Fermín Lasuén had traveled up on Easter to conduct the sacraments for the Fernando Rivera expedition, the overland party that had preceded the Portolá party. The ...
Mission San Fernando Velicatá (Spanish: Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá) was a Spanish mission located about 56 km (35 mi) southeast of El Rosario in Baja California, Mexico. The mission was founded in 1769 by Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra and was the only mission founded by Franciscan missionaries in what is now Baja ...
Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California.The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California.
Serra went along as leader of the missionaries, to establish missions in those places. [15] On the way north, Serra founded Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá . Francisco Palóu was left in charge of the existing missions, and founded the Visita de la Presentación in 1769.
This structure, nicknamed "Serra's Church" once had a 120-foot-tall bell tower that was almost totally destroyed by in 1812. [26] Architectural historian Rexford Newcomb sketched this pair of doors, which display the Spanish "River of Life" pattern, at Mission San Fernando Rey de España in 1916. [27]
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia: St. Louis, King of France: Oceanside: June 12, 1798: 3 Mission San Juan Capistrano: St. John of Capistrano: San Juan Capistrano: November 1, 1776: 4 Mission San Gabriel Arcángel: The Archangel Gabriel: San Gabriel: September 8, 1771: 5 Mission San Fernando Rey de España: St. Ferdinand, King of Spain: Los ...
Felipe de Neve, 4th Governor of the Californias.. In 1774, Fermin Lasuén requested to return to the College of San Fernando in Mexico City.The request was denied, and Lasuén was eventually appointed by Padre Serra as rector of Mission San Diego, which was considered at the time to be the poorest and most unstable of the existing missions.
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.