The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the Pala Mission, was founded on June 13, 1816, as an asistencia or "sub-mission" to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the
The modern capilla (chapel) at "Pala Mission."
Pala Asistencia, with its original bell tower, circa 1875. The structure is loosely styled after a similar one at the Mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe located in Juárez, Mexico.
Pala Mission around 1903, falling into ruins
Pala's replica bell tower.
Mission 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.
San Antonio de Pala Asistencia
…The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the Pala Mission, was founded on June 13, 1816, as an asistencia or "sub-mission" to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the latter mission on the San Luis Rey River. Pala Mission was part of the Spanish missions, asistencias, and…
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in July 2022
Antonio Peyrí was the padre in charge of Mission San Luis Rey from 1799 to 1833.
Luiseños refusing to work for Captain Pablo de la Portillà in 1835.
The courtyard of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, with the first Peruvian Pepper Tree (Schinus molle) planted in California in 1830, visible behind the arch.