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La Placita may refer to: La Placita, Michoacan, Mexico; La Placita, California, U.S., a former settlement in Riverside County; La Placita, Colorado, a former settlement in southeastern Colorado; La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles, nicknamed La Placita, a Catholic church in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Olvera Street, Los Angeles ...
The blessing has been a tradition on Olvera Street since its founding in 1930, when priests would bless cows, horses and goats at La Placita Church "to help ensure health, fecundity and productivity."
NO. 144 NUESTRA SEÑORA LA REINA DE LOS ANGELES - La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles-the Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels-was dedicated on December 8, 1822 during California's Mexican era. Originally known as La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Los Angeles, the church was the only Catholic church for the pueblo.
However, over time the growing French population propagated the development and detailing of the parish register. Entries detailing births, marriages, baptisms and deaths were recorded and kept in the church of Notre Dame-de-la-Recouvrance. Unfortunately, in 1640 the church burned along with all parish records from 1620 to 1640.
Olvera Street, commonly known by its Spanish name Calle Olvera, is a historic pedestrian street in El Pueblo de Los Ángeles, the historic center of Los Angeles.The street is located off of the Plaza de Los Ángeles, the oldest plaza in California, which served as the center of the city life through the Spanish and Mexican eras into the early American era, following the Conquest of California.
Denzel Washington just got baptized and became a minister — and no, it wasn’t in preparation for a movie role.. On Saturday, Dec. 21, the Gladiator II star, 69, was baptized at the Kelly ...
After the adobe church that was built in 1852 collapsed in quicksand, a new church was built in Agua Mansa. Completed in 1853 and dedicated to San Salvador, the church survived through the Great Flood of 1862. [5] The parish of San Salvador de Jurupa included La Placita and Agua Mansa; it was the first non-mission parish in Southern California ...
In the first months of 1784, priests from San Gabriel established an assistant mission in the neighboring Pueblo de los Ángeles along the banks of El Río de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula, in an area with a high concentration of potential converts. At a half-a-day's ride to the east, the mother mission was too ...