Mission San Luis Rey de Francia

Mission San Luis Rey de Francia
	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
English translation	The Mission of Saint Louis, King of France
Patron	Louis IX of France
Nickname(s)	"King of the Missions"
Founding date	June 13, 1798
Founding priest(s)	Father Fermín de Lasuén
Area	35 acres (14 ha)
Built	1815
Architectural style(s)	Spanish Colonial
Founding Order	Eighteenth
Military district	First (El Presidio Reál de San Diego)
Native tribe(s); Spanish name(s)	Kumeyaay, Quechnajuichom; Luiseño & Diegueño 'Mission Indians'
Native place name(s)	Quencha—Quechla
Baptisms	5,399
Marriages	1,335
Burials	2,718
Neophyte population	2,788
Secularized	1834
Returned to the Church	1865
Governing body	Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego
Current use	Parish/Museum/Cemetery/Retreat House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Official name: San Luis Rey Mission Church
Designated	April 15, 1970
Reference no.	70000142
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Designated	April 15, 1970
California Historical Landmark
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 of 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 San Antonio de Pala Asistencia in 1816 and 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. 156 was 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 young18 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Leffingwell,_p._27-1] Leffingwell, p. 27

[Krell273-2] Krell, p. 273

[Yenne,_p._158-3] Yenne, p. 158

[Yenne,_p._156-4] Cite error: The named reference Yenne, p. 156 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Ruscin,_p._196-5] Ruscin, p. 196

[6] Forbes, p. 202

[7] 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."

[8] Ruscin, p. 195

[Lightfoot,_p._108-9] Lightfoot, p. 108

[krell315-10] Krell, p. 315: as of December 31, 1832; information adapted from Engelhardt's Missions and Missionaries of California.

[11] 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.

[12] 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."

[nris-13] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nhlsum-14] "San Luis Rey Mission Church". National Historic Landmark Quicklinks. National Park Service. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2012.

[young18-15] Cite error: The named reference young18 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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