 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in July 2022 | |
  Location in California | |
| Location | 4050 Mission Ave. Oceanside, California 92057 USA |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 33°13′57″N 117°19′13″W / 33.23250°N 117.32028°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión de San Luis, Rey de Francia [1] |
| English translation | The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France |
| Patron | Louis IX of France[2] |
| Nickname(s) | "King of the Missions" [3] |
| Founding date | June 13, 1798[4] |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín de Lasuén [5] |
| Area | 35 acres (14 ha) |
| Built | 1815 |
| Architectural style(s) | Spanish Colonial |
| Founding Order | Eighteenth [2] |
| Military district | First (El Presidio Reál de San Diego) [6][7] |
| Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) | Kumeyaay, Quechnajuichom Luiseño & Diegueño 'Mission Indians' |
| Native place name(s) | Quencha—Quechla [8][9] |
| Baptisms | 5,399 [10] |
| Marriages | 1,335 [10] |
| Burials | 2,718 [10] |
| Neophyte population | 2,788 [11][12] |
| Secularized | 1834 [2] |
| Returned to the Church | 1865 [2] |
| Governing body | Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego |
| Current use | Parish/Museum/Cemetery/Retreat House |
| Official name: San Luis Rey Mission Church | |
| Designated | April 15, 1970[13] |
| Reference no. | 70000142[13] |
| Designated | April 15, 1970[14] |
| Reference no. | #239 |
| Website | |
| http://www.sanluisrey.org/ | |
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (Spanish: Misión San Luis Rey de Francia) is a former Spanish mission in San Luis Rey, a neighborhood in Oceanside, California. This Mission lent its name to the Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians.
At its prime, Mission San Luis Rey's structures and services compound covered almost 950,400 acres (384,600 ha), making it the largest of the Californian missions, along with its surrounding agricultural land.[15] Multiple outposts were built in support of Mission San Luis Rey and placed under its supervision, including the San Antonio de Pala Asistencia in 1816 and the Las Flores Estancia in 1823.
- ^ Leffingwell, p. 27
- ^ a b c d Krell, p. 273
- ^ Yenne, p. 158
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Yenne, p. 156was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Ruscin, p. 196
- ^ Forbes, p. 202
- ^ Engelhardt, San Diego Mission, pp. v, 228 "The military district of San Diego embraced the Missions of San Diego, San Luis Rey, San Juan Capistrano, and San Gabriel."
- ^ Ruscin, p. 195
- ^ Lightfoot, p. 108
- ^ a b c Krell, p. 315: as of December 31, 1832; information adapted from Engelhardt's Missions and Missionaries of California.
- ^ Krell, p. 315: as of December 31, 1832; information adapted from Engelhardt's Missions and Missionaries of California. Mission San Luis Rey was by far the most dominant of the Alta California missions at this time in terms of the number of neophytes attached to it.
- ^ Johnson, et al.: "In contrast to baptismal patterns documented at missions in much of the rest of California, Mission San Luis Rey appears to have coexisted with nearby native communities for a much longer period of time without fully absorbing their populations...This may be the result of a conscious decision by the head missionary at Mission San Luis Rey, Fr. Antonio Peyri, to permit a certain number of baptized Luiseños to remain living apart from the mission with their unconverted relatives at their rancherías [villages]. The native communities in this way gradually became converted into mission ranchos at Santa Margarita, Las Flores, Las Pulgas, San Jacinto, Temecula, Pala, etc."
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "San Luis Rey Mission Church". National Historic Landmark Quicklinks. National Park Service. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
young18was invoked but never defined (see the help page).