Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, founded on July 16, 1769, has been celebrating its "jubilee year" throughout 2019. In January, as the landmark turned 250 years old, the public was invited to ...

So Egan brought it back and had it mounted -- a permanent reminder of mission to the Mission's congregation. A plump green wreath sat on one side of the altar at Mission San Diego de Alcalá ...

In San Diego County, home of two of the historic missions, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions, and Old Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, the largest one ...

with masses and prayer services at St. Joseph’s Cathedral and historic Mission San Diego de Alcalá. The faithful will have ashes applied to their foreheads in the sign of the cross as the ...

Never mind that the original Golden State vines broke ground at Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769 and became Father Junipero Serra’s Communion wine. Grapes pushed northward, and, to the ...