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  1. California mission clash of cultures - Wikipedia

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    The California mission clash of cultures occurred at the Spanish Missions in California during the Spanish Las Californias - New Spain and Mexican Alta California eras of control, with lasting consequences after American statehood. The Missions were religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans from 1769 to 1823 for the purpose ...

  2. Gerónimo Boscana - Wikipedia

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    For more than a decade, from 1814 to 1826, he was stationed at Mission San Juan Capistrano. He died at Mission San Gabriel in 1831, and is the only missionary to be interred in its cemetery among over 2,000 other mission inhabitants, mainly Gabrielino or Tongva Indians , buried there.

  3. Acjachemen - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of Acjachemen hut at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Acjachemen villages were primarily 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. They returned one year later to begin constructing ...

  4. Apolinaria Lorenzana - Wikipedia

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    Occupation (s) Teacher, nurse, matron at Alta California missions. Apolinaria Lorenzana (1793–1884) was a Californio woman of the 19th century who was brought to the western part of the Mexican Cession in the area of present-day California. She lived at missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, and San Juan Capistrano, where she was a teacher ...

  5. Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Rosario E. Aguilar - Wikipedia

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    In 1841 Aguilar was Suplente (Substitute Justice of the Peace or Mayor) of San Diego. He moved to San Juan Capistrano soon after and obtained land there. He died there in 1847. [1] Rosario Aguilar's daughter Rosaria was born ca. 1827. His daughter Rafaela was married to José Antonio Serrano, who was a grantee of Rancho Pauma.

  7. Mission Indians - Wikipedia

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    Mission Indians are the Indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern california and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California and the Asistencias and Estancias established between 1769 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

  8. Mission San Juan Capistrano - Wikipedia

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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.