. The missions of California, with sketches of the lives of St. Francis and Junipero Serra . se for wine and 1903 it was purchased by W. R. Hearst for $5,000 and latertransferred to the State of Cahfornia and accepted by the Legis-lature. The ground plot was one hundred and sixty-six feet byone hundred and lifty feet. It will be preserved as a valuablelandmark forever. It is claimed that General Vallejo built thetower in 1835. The chapel is sixteen by thirty-six feet and roofed with shingles,while the vestibule is about fifteen feet square with stairs leadingto the choir loft. The inter
. The missions of California, with sketches of the lives of St. Francis and Junipero Serra . se for wine and 1903 it was purchased by W. R. Hearst for $5,000 and latertransferred to the State of Cahfornia and accepted by the Legis-lature. The ground plot was one hundred and sixty-six feet byone hundred and lifty feet. It will be preserved as a valuablelandmark forever. It is claimed that General Vallejo built thetower in 1835. The chapel is sixteen by thirty-six feet and roofed with shingles,while the vestibule is about fifteen feet square with stairs leadingto the choir loft. The interior condition can well be imaginedafter twenty-five years of use as a hay barn. A temporary woodenroof now shelters the adjoining building which is ninety-fivefeet long, with the roof overhanging on the side to cover thecorridor, which was built in the plainest, simplest fashion. The Womans Club of Sonoma have been most active in therestoration of the Mission. The Mission was named in honor of the great missionary to thePeruvian day is July 24. MISSION CHAPELS OR PALAThe Bells of Pala. MISSION CHAPELS OR ASISTENCIAS. ^HE missionaries always rode or walked to the dis-g^ tant rancherias which had no settled pastor. Thebuildings erected there for worship were calledchapels or asistencias. Some of these buildings stillremain in use while many others are in ruins orhave completely disappeared. In 1S03 a chapel was built at arancheria called by the Indians Mescaltitlan and by the SpaniardsSan Miguel, six miles from Santa Barbara. It was of adobesixty-five feet by twenty-seven feet. In 1807 eighteen adobebuildings were erected here. Near San Luis Obispo was a ranch-eria known as San ]Miguelito,and here in 1809 the Governor gavehis approval for the erection of a chapel. San Luis had severalsuch vistas. The cornerstone of the church of Our Lady of the Angelsin Los Angeles was laid in 1814 by Fr. Gil of San Gabriel but itwas not completed and dedicated until Dec
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