This article is about the mission in California. For the present-day parish church located at the mission, see Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano. For the mission of the same name in Texas, see Mission San Juan Capistrano (Texas).
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano
Location in California
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Mission San Juan Capistrano (the United States)
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Location
26801 Ortega Hwy. San Juan Capistrano, California 92675
"Jewel of the Missions"[3] "Mission of the Swallow"[4] "Mission of the Tragedies"[5]
Founding date
November 1, 1776[1] it was the 7th mission.
Founding priest(s)
Fermín Lasuén (1st)[6] Father Presidente Junípero Serra and Gregório Amúrrio (2nd)[7]
Founding Order
Seventh[2]
Military district
First[8][9]
Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s)
Acjachemen Juaneño
Native place name(s)
Quanís Savit, Sajavit[10]
Baptisms
4,340[11]
Confirmations
1,182[12]
Marriages
1,153[11]
Burials
3,126[11]
Neophyte population
900[11][13]
Secularized
1833[2]
Returned to the Church
1865[2]
Governing body
Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
Current use
Chapel / Museum
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Designated
September 3, 1971
Reference no.
71000170
California Historical Landmark
Reference no.
#200
Website
http://www.missionsjc.com
Mission San Juan Capistrano (Spanish: Misión San Juan Capistrano) is a Spanish mission in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County, California. Founded November 1, 1776 in colonial Las Californias by Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Franciscan Order, it was named for Saint John of Capistrano. The Spanish Colonial Baroque style church was located in the Alta California province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Mission was founded less than 60 yards from the village of Acjacheme.[14][15] The Mission was secularized by the Mexican government in 1833, and returned to the Roman Catholic Church by the United States government in 1865. The Mission was damaged over the years by a number of natural disasters, but restoration and renovation efforts date from around 1910. It functions today as a museum.
^ abLeffingwell, p. 37
^ abcdKrell, p. 153
^Young, p. 26
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^Ryan, p. 11
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^Engelhardt 1922, p.
^Forbes, p. 202
^Engelhardt 1920, 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
^ abcdKrell, p. 315: as of December 31, 1832; information adapted from Engelhardt's Missions and Missionaries of California.
^Engelhardt 1922, pp. 175–176
^Engelhardt 1922, pp. 175–176. 1812 saw the greatest number of neophytes attached to the Mission (1,361), whereas the smallest recorded neophyte population (383) was seen in 1783.
^O'Neil, Stephen; Evans, Nancy H. (1980). "Notes on Historical Juaneno Villages and Geographical Features". UC Merced Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. 2 (2): 226–232.
^Woodward, Lisa Louise (2007). The Acjachemen of San Juan Capistrano: The History, Language and Politics of an Indigenous California Community. University of California, Davis. pp. 3, 8.
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