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| | San Diego Missions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | 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. |
 | | In 1818 San Luis Rey with its six mission ranches, Pala, Santa Margarita, San Jacinto, Santa Ysabel, Temecula and San Pedro, was at the height of its prosperity; the richest, the most populous of all such establishments in California. |
 | | Peyri, who at sixty-seven years of age, was still in charge, that with secularization the missions would be ruined. |
| www.sandiegohistory.org /collections/missions/sanluisrey.htm (480 words) |
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