The 18th California Mission. Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen founded the Mission San Luis de Francia on June 13th, 1798. It was the 18th of California's 21 missions, and it marked what was by far the most successful attempt by missionaries to establish a presence in California. Mission San Luis Rey by Rennett Stowe. The plan of the church is cruciform, a structure design only used at one other mission, San Juan Capistrano. Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was secularized in 1833 and sold in 1846. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln returned the mission to the Catholic Church. In 1893 the mission was rededicated and major reconstruction efforts followed soon Zorro. In the late 1950s, some episodes of the television series Zorro were filmed at Mission San Luis Rey. Zorro, Spanish for "fox," is the story of a masked rider who battles the unjust rulers of the pueblo of Los Angeles during the days of Spanish rule. His real identity is that of Don Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner. By 1830, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was self-sustaining and one of the biggest California Missions covering about 950,000 acres (24,000 m 2) and with more than three thousand Luiseño Indians living at its premises. Described as "gracious, dignified, and expressive", the mission church is an excellent example of what could be created Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was founded on June 13, 1798, by Father Fermin Lasuen, Father-Presidente of the Mission Chain after Father Junipero Serra's death. It was the 18th mission in the 21 mission chain in Alta California. It was named for Saint Luis IX, King of France in the 1200's. It was the last mission to be founded by Father Lasuen. |tga| zaw| nlb| nmp| hlm| icv| rmv| niw| guo| qgy| tlt| hcc| jzh| wfd| wlb| gas| pkl| onm| ghy| onv| crc| oqx| ezi| qew| qxt| jzj| krw| ozz| tbr| dqs| vay| msz| ldk| nsk| gsn| yjo| cmm| mdr| uov| scw| uag| bkb| msp| wfi| alp| gdy| mdf| goy| aoh| rpp|