Whelan received other job opportunities via Whitcomb’s recommendations, such as with the Mission San Diego de Alcala and Mission San Luis Rey de Franco. Later, when Whitcomb's initial University ...

It is about 620 miles from the northernmost mission in Sonoma to the southernmost mission, San Diego de Alcalá. That length would be the equivalent from the Cathedral of Barcelona to the ...

ESCONDIDO — Native American tribes from across San ... Diego Zoo Safari Park before being displaced following the arrival of Spanish colonizers and the establishment of Mission San Diego de ...

Nuns pray in front of a memorial to Pope Francis at Mission San Diego de Alcalá. (Photo courtesy Mission San Diego de Alcalá via Facebook) Catholics throughout the San Diego area joined the ...

July 6, 2010 (San Diego) – Tucked away just east of I-15, Mission San Diego de Alcala marks the birthplace of California. Founded on July 16, 1769 by Spanish padre Junipero Serra, the mission ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The City of San Diego is alerting drivers to plan ahead as road work is taking place on a busy section of Mission Bay Drive in Pacific Beach through next week.

Walking through its grand hallways and open verandas feels like stepping back in time. Mission San Diego de Alcalá As the first of California's 21 missions, Mission San Diego de Alcalá holds ...

Residents are being evacuated in the San Diego area as firefighters are battling a brush fire that is threatening homes. CalFire San Diego confirmed that they were assisting the City of Poway ...

(Natalie Romano) St. Junípero Serra, a Spanish priest, did in fact bring vine cuttings to California and is credited with the first planting at Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Around 1775, friars under ...

On July 16, 1769, St. Junípero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of eventual 21 California missions. On Jan. 17, 1832, in the vicinity of where Petco Park is today ...

through the founding of Mission San Diego de Alcala in 1769. The diocese serves 1.4 million Catholics, with 96 parishes, 204 active priests, and about 80 Catholic schools. The diocese first filed ...