Our country in story . hadmiration at a huge cross which was made of steel andconcrete and was studded with fragments of tiles dug upfrom the ruins of the old San Diego mission. Its base, inwhich is a bronze memorial tablet, is made of stones col-lected from the ruins of the various California missions. Now we are actually standing on the site of theancient mission! exclaimed James, reverently. And this cross, added Brother Jerome, erected in1913 as a monument to Padre Serra, marks the very spoton which the great Franciscan raised his first rude crossand solemnly founded the San Diego mission.
Our country in story . hadmiration at a huge cross which was made of steel andconcrete and was studded with fragments of tiles dug upfrom the ruins of the old San Diego mission. Its base, inwhich is a bronze memorial tablet, is made of stones col-lected from the ruins of the various California missions. Now we are actually standing on the site of theancient mission! exclaimed James, reverently. And this cross, added Brother Jerome, erected in1913 as a monument to Padre Serra, marks the very spoton which the great Franciscan raised his first rude crossand solemnly founded the San Diego mission. The eventis annually celebrated on Easter Sunday by a High Massat the foot of this cross. Pilgrimages are made to thiscross on the last Sunday of November, the anniversaryof Padre Serras death being on November 22. The mis-sion was begun at the foot of this hill, but Padre Serra,some time later, moved it six miles up the valley to sepa-rate the neophytes, or converts, from the evil influence of THE GREAT SOUTHWEST 111. MOKUMENT TO PADRE SERRA ATSAN DIEGO the soldiers, whose presidio, or military post, remainedhere on the original site, now known as Old Town. What a difference between the California of that longago time and our California of today, said James, as thetwo seated themselves be-neath the cross. Suppose we comparethe two briefly, sug-gested Brother , as we knowit today, with its longcoast line, toweringmountains, trackless des-erts, deep canyons, denseforests, fruitful valleys,and many thousands of happy, prosperous people, is, un-doubtedly, the most interesting of all the forty-eightstates in our Union. It has a greater variety of climateand of plant life than any other of our states. One might,for instance, spend Christmas forenoon beneath the clear-est of skies, amidst blooming orange ^ groves, fragrantflower beds, murmuring waterfalls, and singing birds, and,after a few hours, be up among the snow-capped moun-tains striking the snow from some st
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