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EspañolMISSION SAN FERNANDO REY DE ESPAñA
(Redirected from San Fernando Mission)
:''Another mission bearing the name 'San Fernando Rey de España' is the
Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá in Baja California.''
'Mission San Fernando Rey de España' (originally 'La Misión del Señor Fernando, Rey de España'), was founded on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" (September 8), 1797. The settlement is located on the former 'Encino Rancho' in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, near the site of the first gold discovery in Alta California.[4] In 1845, Governor Pío Pico declared the Mission buildings for sale and in 1846, made Mission San Fernando Rey de España his headquarters. The Mission was utilized in a number of ways during the late 1800s; it was a station for the Butterfield Stage Lines; it served as a warehouse for the Porter Land and Water Company; and in 1896, the quadrangle was used as a hog farm. A hundred-pound bell was unearthed in an orange grove near the Mission in 1920. It carried the following inscription (translated from Russian): "''In the Year 1796, in the month of January, this bell was cast on the Island of Kodiak by the blessing of 'Archimandrite Joaseph', during the sojourn of Alexsandr Baranov''." It is not known how this Russian Orthodox artifact from Kodiak, Alaska made its way to a Catholic mission in Southern California.
San Fernando's church became a working church again in 1923 when the Oblate priests arrived. Many attempts were made to restore the old Mission from the early 1900s, but it was not until the Hearst Foundation gave a large gift of money in the 1940s, that the Mission was finally restored. In 1971, a large earthquake damaged the church, which had to completely rebuilt. The repairs were completed in 1974. It continues to be very well cared for and is still used as a parish church. In 2003 comedian Bob Hope was interred in the Bob Hope Memorial Gardens.
★ National Register of Historic Places #NPS–88002147 — ''Convento'' Building
★ Los Angeles Historic–Cultural Monument #23
★ Los Angeles Historic–Cultural Monument #2355 — ''Convento'' Building
1. Leffingwell, p. 49
2. Ruscin, p. 137
3. Yenne, p. 148
4. Ruscin, p. 196
5. Ruscin, p. 195
6. Ruscin, p. 196
★ The Russian Population in Alaska and California: Late 18th Century - 1867, Fedorova, Svetlana G., trans. & ed. by Richard A. Pierce and Alton S. Donnelly, , , Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, 1973, ISBN 0-919642-53-5
★ California's Missions, Wright, R., , , Hubert A. and Martha H. Lowman, Arroyo Grande, CA, 1950,
★ Mission Memoirs, Ruscin, Terry, , , Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, 1999, ISBN 0-932653-30-8
★ The Missions of California, Yenne, Bill, , , Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA, 2004, ISBN 1-59223-319-8
★ The Missions of California, Young, S., and Levick, M., , , Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, CA, 1988, ISBN 0-8118-3694-0
★ Spanish missions in California
★ USNS ''Mission San Fernando'' (AO-122) — a ''Mission Buenaventura'' Class fleet oiler built during World War II.
★ Elevation & Site Layout sketches of the Mission proper
★ Virtual Reality Panorama "Inside the Mission Church"
★ Virtual Reality Panorama of "The Mission Fountain"
★ Andrés Pico Adobe
:''Another mission bearing the name 'San Fernando Rey de España' is the
Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá in Baja California.''
'Mission San Fernando Rey de España' (originally 'La Misión del Señor Fernando, Rey de España'), was founded on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" (September 8), 1797. The settlement is located on the former 'Encino Rancho' in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, near the site of the first gold discovery in Alta California.[4] In 1845, Governor Pío Pico declared the Mission buildings for sale and in 1846, made Mission San Fernando Rey de España his headquarters. The Mission was utilized in a number of ways during the late 1800s; it was a station for the Butterfield Stage Lines; it served as a warehouse for the Porter Land and Water Company; and in 1896, the quadrangle was used as a hog farm. A hundred-pound bell was unearthed in an orange grove near the Mission in 1920. It carried the following inscription (translated from Russian): "''In the Year 1796, in the month of January, this bell was cast on the Island of Kodiak by the blessing of 'Archimandrite Joaseph', during the sojourn of Alexsandr Baranov''." It is not known how this Russian Orthodox artifact from Kodiak, Alaska made its way to a Catholic mission in Southern California.
San Fernando's church became a working church again in 1923 when the Oblate priests arrived. Many attempts were made to restore the old Mission from the early 1900s, but it was not until the Hearst Foundation gave a large gift of money in the 1940s, that the Mission was finally restored. In 1971, a large earthquake damaged the church, which had to completely rebuilt. The repairs were completed in 1974. It continues to be very well cared for and is still used as a parish church. In 2003 comedian Bob Hope was interred in the Bob Hope Memorial Gardens.
| Contents |
| Other historic designations |
| Notes |
| References |
| See also |
| External links |
Other historic designations
★ National Register of Historic Places #NPS–88002147 — ''Convento'' Building
★ Los Angeles Historic–Cultural Monument #23
★ Los Angeles Historic–Cultural Monument #2355 — ''Convento'' Building
A statue of Father Junípero Serra and a native child at Mission San Fernando.
Notes
1. Leffingwell, p. 49
2. Ruscin, p. 137
3. Yenne, p. 148
4. Ruscin, p. 196
5. Ruscin, p. 195
6. Ruscin, p. 196
References
★ The Russian Population in Alaska and California: Late 18th Century - 1867, Fedorova, Svetlana G., trans. & ed. by Richard A. Pierce and Alton S. Donnelly, , , Limestone Press, Kingston, Ontario, 1973, ISBN 0-919642-53-5
★ California's Missions, Wright, R., , , Hubert A. and Martha H. Lowman, Arroyo Grande, CA, 1950,
★ Mission Memoirs, Ruscin, Terry, , , Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA, 1999, ISBN 0-932653-30-8
★ The Missions of California, Yenne, Bill, , , Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA, 2004, ISBN 1-59223-319-8
★ The Missions of California, Young, S., and Levick, M., , , Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, CA, 1988, ISBN 0-8118-3694-0
See also
★ Spanish missions in California
★ USNS ''Mission San Fernando'' (AO-122) — a ''Mission Buenaventura'' Class fleet oiler built during World War II.
External links
★ Elevation & Site Layout sketches of the Mission proper
★ Virtual Reality Panorama "Inside the Mission Church"
★ Virtual Reality Panorama of "The Mission Fountain"
★ Andrés Pico Adobe
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