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Wooden crosses in cemetery at Mission Assistencia of San Antonio at Pala, ca.1898

Black and White photograph of crosses marking graves beyond a white picket fence, which in itself is symbolic. Date thought to be 1898. There are seven wooden crosses, with an eighth one painted in white. The graves are decorated with meaningful…

Tags: 19th century, California, Cemeteries, Constancia Ybarra, European Missionaries, Graves, Gravesite, Luiseno Cupeno, Missionaries, Missionary, Missions, Pala, Photograph, San Diego, Spanish, Spanish Missionaries

‘Padre Junipero Serra and the Mission Church San Carlos del Carmelo’

Religious book telling the story of Padre Junipero Serra, a Catholic missionary from Spain who organised the first of 21 Spanish missions to California. Bound in a yellow cover, hardback version.
He spent his early career as a Franciscan educator in…

Tags: 19th century, Book, California, California Missions, Catholicism, Christianity, European Missionaries, Franciscan, Mission Churches, Missionaries, Missionary, Padre Junipero Serra, Religion, Religious Book, Spanish Missionaries

Shades of Escondido - Mission San Luis Rey

One of the first digital images of the San Luis Rey Church, a centre point for Mission San Luis Rey De Francia, before it was restored by Spanish missionaries. The year is thought to be 1893. Religious buildings surrounded by rubble, thought to be…

Tags: 19th century, Before restoration, California, Christianity, Demolition, European, Europeans, Farming, Indigenous Peoples, Kingdom of Missions, Mission San Luis Rey De Francia, Missionaries, Missionary, Padre Fermin Lasuen, Payomkowishum, Religion, Religious Missions, Spanish Missionaries

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Wooden crosses in cemetery at Mission Assistencia of San Antonio at Pala, ca.1898

‘Padre Junipero Serra and the Mission Church San Carlos del Carmelo’

Shades of Escondido - Mission San Luis Rey