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 ...

The West Coast’s Plymouth Rock, Mission San Diego de Alcalá on Thursday will launch a year of events marking its 250th anniversary. “The mission really is the beginning of what became the ...

A plump green wreath sat on one side of the altar at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, a single flame rising from one of the candles buried within its branches. Advent had begun, and after the mission ...

246 years after founding the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, Catholics are celebrating Juniperro Serra as Catholicism’s newest saint. “We are very excited that [the Pope] did choose to ...

Firefighters are battling a brush fire in the hillside terrain of Pala, prompting evacuations in northern San Diego County, ...

Evacuation warnings were ordered for a portion of Riverside County as a brush fire burning in northern San Diego County began threatening to push north. Per Cal Fire, the Henderson Fire was ...

Spaniards established the original Mission San Diego de Alcalá near the base of Presidio Hill in 1769, but moved it to its current location, to the east, in 1774. By the 1900s, the valley was ...

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 ...

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 ...

is a detailed guidebook describing hiking at Mission Trails and nearby Mission San Diego de Alcala. It features more than 100 family-friendly hikes, all less than a one-hour drive from downtown.

Led by Father Junípero Serra, they founded the first mission, San Diego de Alcalá, in 1769, followed by others such as San Carlos Borromeo and San Gabriel Arcángel. The friars faced challenges ...