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	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mission San Luís Rey de Francia, circa 1910.
		Mission San Luís Rey de Francia ("The King of the Missions") was founded on June 13, 1798 by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén.
		In 1816 Mission San Antonio de Pala was established twenty miles inland as an asistencia ("sub-mission").
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mission_San_Luis_Rey_de_Francia (270 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
		Mission San Luís Rey de Francia ("The Mission of Saint Louis King of France") was founded on June 13, 1798 by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén.
		San Luis Rey de Francia, "King of Missions," was the eighteenth of the Franciscan establishments in California; and the second founded in what is now the County of San Diego-second therefore on El Camino Real.
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is the 18th in a chain of 21 California Missions established by the Spanish Franciscans.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mission-San-Luis-Rey-de-Francia (1120 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
		The Mission is still the center of the busy downtown area, and functions as a Roman Catholic parish church for the City of San Luis Obispo in the Diocese of Monterey.
		The Mission Basilica San Carlos Borromeo is the oldest church in the Diocese of Monterey The Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California (Latin: Dioecesis Montereyensis in California) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese in the United States of the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Central...
		The San Bernardino Asistencia (or San Bernardino Estancia) was established in 1819, as a sub-mission to the San Gabriel Mission.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mission-San-Luis-Obispo-de-Tolosa (2423 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1816, Mission San Antonio de Pala was established twenty miles inland as its asistencia ("sub-mission").
		An early account of the mission was written by one of its LuiseÃ±o neophytes, Pablo Tac.
		Image:San Luis Rey de Francia circa 1900 Keystone-Mast Company.jpgInside the "cavernous" capilla (chapel} at Mission San LuÃs Rey de Francia, circa 1900.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Mission_San_Luis_Rey_de_Francia (304 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey - LetsGoSeeIt.com
		SPANISH MISSION: The establishment of the missions in Alta California was not authorized until the threat of Russian encroachment into the area.
		However, Mission San Luis Rey came under the control of various secular administrators, several of whom managed to gain title to large portions of former mission land and thousands of cattle and sheep, leaving nothing to the Luisenos.
		Mission San Luis Rey is located in the city of Oceanside at 4050 Mission Ave.
	www.letsgoseeit.com /index/county/sd/oceanside/loc01/mission_slr.htm (930 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia Cemetery - San Diego County, California
		The Mission was founded June 13, 1798 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, and was the 18th of the 21 California Missions.
		16 Jan 1994, En memoria a nuestra bebe adorado angelina de dios descansa en paz.
		14 Jul 1994, En memoria a nuestra bebe adorado angelito de dios descansa en paz.
	www.interment.net /data/us/ca/sandiego/san_luis_rey.htm (721 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Oceanside
		This mission is named after a canonized monarch, Louis IX of France, who was admitted into the band of the saints because of his crusades against the heathens in 1297.
		It is the last of ten mission stations built by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen and lies in the far south between the San Diego and San Juan Capistrano missions, some 5mi/8km east of the present town of Oceanside.
		The French visitor who had admired the Santa Barbara mission in 1840, considered that from an architectural point of view the mission of San Luis Rey de Francia was the most impressive and symmetrical in the whole of California.
	planetware.com /.../mission-san-luis-rey-de-francia-us-ca-msrdf.htm (340 words)

	California Missions
		This mission is situated almost in the center of the beautiful town of San Luis Obispo, that is a kind of a cultural center on the middle coast of California.
		Mission San Buonaventura is another small mission is situated right in the town of Ventura.
		In the mission there is not much: the church, the yard and an outside area behind a wall with an ancient well on the background of new houses.
	home.nethere.com /morias/calif_missions/missions1.html (739 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > North County -- On a mission
		Brother James Lockman, executive director of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, stood on the mission's church balcony and examined the ceiling, which is in serious need of renovation.
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, established in 1798 by Father Fermin de Lasuen, is the 18th and largest in the chain of 21 California missions.
		San Luis Rey was virtually in ruins in the late 1800s, when Franciscan friar Joseph Jeremiah O'Keefe started to put it all back together again.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/northcounty/20070107-9999-lz1mi7sanluis.html (1438 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia - June 13, 1798
		Mission farm and pasturelands extended in a radius as far as 15 miles.
		Mission San Luis Rey raised livestock and produced 67,000 bushels of grain in a single year.
		The Mission was incorporated into the United States in 1850 when California became the 34th state of the Union.
	www.earlenesroots.com /missionsanluisrey.html (579 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey
		The Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was founded in 1798 by Franciscan friars sent by the Spanish government to colonize the region and to build up Spanish holdings in the new world.
		He was the architect for the Mission San Luis Rey, and it was his enthusiasm and hard work that many feel is the reason for the Mission's resounding success and for its title as the King of the Missions.
		The Mission San Luis Rey is also a testament of the determination of those who love the past, cherish it's lessons and are determined to preserve the Mission forever for those yet to be born.
	www.bookscape.net /mission1.htm (1238 words)

	Blog by-the-Sea: North San Diego County, Its Mission and Its Mission Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The mission (which is now home to a large, modern Catholic congregation and a popular retreat center, as well as a point of historic interest) is celebrating the day with wine tasting in the mission's rose garden.
		In 1810, the mission built a granary in “Rancho de Paula.” By 1816, a village had formed there, and the Franciscans built the Mission San Antonio de Pala, named for St. Antonio of Padua, 30 miles east of the primary Mission San Luis Rey.
		Although the Pala mission was among the smallest in California and was operated under the Mission San Luis Rey, it is the only one of the missions that is still serving its original purpose.
	blog-by-the-sea.typepad.com /blog_bythesea/2006/06/north_san_diego.html (2679 words)

	TrekEarth \| Mission San Luis Rey de Francia Photo
		Because of the assumption that Mary Magdalene had been a spectacular sinner, and also perhaps because she is described as weeping at the tomb of Jesus on the resurrection morning, she is often portrayed in art as weeping, or with eyes red from having wept.
		Although the last mission to be founded in the south, San Luis Rey the "King of the Missions" came to be the largest and richest of all.
		Nicknamed "King of the missions", Mission San Luis Rey was the largest and most populous of all the California missions.
	www.trekearth.com /gallery/North_America/United_States/photo414083.htm (860 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, Oceanside
		This mission is named after a canonized monarch, Louis IX of France, who was admitted into the band of the saints because of his crusades against the heathens in 1297.
		It is the last of ten mission stations built by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen and lies in the far south between the San Diego and San Juan Capistrano missions, some 5mi/8km east of the present town of Oceanside.
		The French visitor who had admired the Santa Barbara mission in 1840, considered that from an architectural point of view the mission of San Luis Rey de Francia was the most impressive and symmetrical in the whole of California.
	www.planetware.com /oceanside/mission-san-luis-rey-de-francia-us-ca-msrdf.htm (360 words)

	Historic California Posts: Posts at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
		A camp was established on the San Luis River, about two miles from the coast and some 35 miles northwest of San Diego.
		The church and mission, just south of the U.S. Marines' Camp Pendleton, have been restored and the ruins of the soldiers' barracks are on the site located three and a half miles east of Oceanside.
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was described in diary of Mormon soldier, Nathaniel V. Jones: "The whole front is about 10,200 feet in length.
	www.militarymuseum.org /CpSanLuisRey.html (1073 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was founded June 13, 1798 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, President of the California Missions and successor to Father Junipero Serra, Father of the California Mission System.
		Our Mission is the 18th of the 21 California Missions and known as the "King of the Missions because of its size, population and productivity.
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia experienced a long period of decline and decay after the Spanish Colonial period, but in 1892 the Franciscans returned and efforts were made to restore and renovate the Mission, an ongoing process.
	www.sanluisrey.org /History/FAQhistory.asp (375 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
		The mission is in the shape of a cross and the interior has double-dome wooden construction.
		San Antonio de Pala is an asistencia to this mission.
		The mission is in San Luis Rey, four miles East of Interstate 5 along California 76.
	missiontour.org /sanluisrey/index.htm (306 words)

	Condos at Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is located in a secluded valley four miles east of Highway 5 in Oceanside.
		Founded in June 1798 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, the Mission is one of the most architecturally impressive of all the California missions.
		The newly developed San Luis Rey Valley Conference Center and Garden's, located at the Mission, is equipped to accommodate conventions, conferences, banquets and weddings.
	www.villas-oceanside.com /mission.htm (330 words)

	Mission Trail Today - Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mission San Luis Rey is referred to as the King of the Missions because of it's size, the mission was the largest building in California.
		An asistencia mission was an extension or sub-mission and Mission San Antonio de Pala was one of two extension missions in the San Diego District.
		Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is located near the cities of San Luis Rey, Oceanside, and Carlsbad, on State Highway 76, about five miles east of I-5.
	www.missiontrailtoday.com /California/code/CM18SLR0.shtml (824 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
		San Luis Rey was built midway between the popular missions of San Diego and San Juan Capistrano to accommodate the rapidly growing convert population.
		Situated on six acres of land, the largest area covered by a mission, the mission church itself was the biggest building in California until the 1850s.
		San Luis Rey also served the largest population of neophytes (over 2700) raised over 50,000 head of livestock, and was known, appropriately, as the "King Of The Missions."
	www.missionart.com /hSLR/p-SLR.html (107 words)

	San Diego News Notes November 1997 \| Pews and Pilasters, by Sean-Michael de Carvalho
		What is unusual, however, is that -- alone of all the Missions -- San Luis Rey retains its domed transept: a lofty octagonal dome on pendentives, beneath which the recessed chancel, framed by an arch, contains a two-level, architectural altarpiece.
		The influence of the Missions on the architecture of Catholic churches in San Diego County is immense.
		Many of our churches imitate their aesthetic characteristics with only slight variations: the whitewashed adobe, the flat and unadorned facade, the multi-curved pediment, the tower, the arches, the basilica shape, the flat-beamed interior ceiling, and the painted pastel decorative patterns on the walls.
	www.sdnewsnotes.com /ed/misc/1197psps.htm (697 words)

	California Missions Foundation - Mission San Luis Rey
		Mission San Luis Rey was the eighteenth mission-founded June 13, 1798 by Fr.
		The mission is named for Louis IX, King of France (1215-70), canonized 1290 due to his crusades to Egypt and Jerusalem.
		Other parts of the mission complex are historic reconstructions built in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.missionsofcalifornia.org /missions/mission18.html (186 words)

	San Diego Missions
		The church was Of adobe, faced with burnt brick, 30 feet by 189 feet, roofed with "tile of clay." The mortuary chapel was unique among the early churches.
		After the withdrawal of the troops San Luis Rey fell into decay; the little village of the same name, famous for "poker bets and large drinks," grew up nearby.
		In 1931 restoration of the mission buildings was begun, with the result that they are today, in charge again of Franciscans, among the finest remaining examoples of early mission architecture.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /collections/missions/sanluisrey.htm (480 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
		San Luis Rey de Francia was the ninth and last misssion to be founded by Father-President Lasuen, and it closed a critical gap between San Diego and San Juan Capistrano.
		Named after Saint Louis IX, King of France, the Mission was founded on June 13, 1798 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen in a fertile valley midway between Missions San Diego de Alcala and San Juan Capistrano.
		Mission farm and pasture lands extended in a radius as far as 15 miles.
	www.athanasius.com /camission/luis.htm (1152 words)

	California Missions
		This mission is situated almost in the center of the beautiful town of San Luis Obispo, that is a kind of a cultural center on the middle coast of California.
		Mission San Buonaventura is another small mission is situated right in the town of Ventura.
		In the mission there is not much: the church, the yard and an outside area behind a wall with an ancient well on the background of new houses.
	home.nethere.net /morias/calif_missions/missions1.html (739 words)

	Mission San Luis Rey De Francia Attraction * Discounts on Attraction Hotels * Hotels in Attraction
		Often referred to as the “King of Missions”, San Luis Rey is one of four missions located in San Diego.
		San Luis Rey was founded in 1798 by Padre Fermin Francisco de Lausuen, successor to Padre Junipero Serra.
		Although legislation passed in 1833 stated that the mission and its land were to be given back to the Indians, it fell into the hands of various secular administrators who gained title to large portions of former mission land and livestock, leaving the Indians with nada.
	san-diego.guide-to-travel.com /mission-san-luis-rey-de-francia.html (426 words)

	Mission San Antonio de Pala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mission San Antonio de Pala (or Pala Asistencia) was founded on June 13, 1816 in what is today the Pala Indian Reservation located in eastern San Diego County (some twenty miles inland) as an asistencia ("sub-mission") to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia.
		Once Mission San Luis Rey began to prosper, its existence attracted the attention of large number of mountain Indians, the dubbed the Luiseños by the Spanish.
		The site for the Pala Mission was selected because it served as a natural gathering place for the native tribesman, more than a thousand of whom had been baptized by 1819.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mission_San_Antonio_de_Pala (375 words)

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