IN A MISSION PATIO. 



^^^^J|N the first day of Novem- 

 S^p^«^ ber, 1776, that zealous and 

 p ^/ L^ noble Franciscan, Father 

 ^^^^W| Junipero Serra, assisted by 

 Father Gregorio Ammurio, founded, 

 some three miles from the sea and nearly 

 midway between the present cities of Los 

 Angeles and San Diego, the mission of 

 San Juan Capistrano. The bells were 

 rung from the trees and mass was cele- 

 brated by the fathers, participated in by 

 a small company of mission soldiers, and 

 perchance a few friendly Indians. Then 

 followed the labor of building a mission. 

 Adobe bricks were cut and baked in the 

 sun. Tiles for floor and roof were 

 burned. Pine trees were felled in the 

 mountains many miles away and carried 

 by hand to the spot. Gradually about the 

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