Mission San Diego De Alcalá
Hi, I’m going to tell you about a wonderful mission called “San Diego De Alcala”. This mission has fantastic information you might want to stick around for like, when and where was it found, how was it built, who was the saint, how did they get money, and how is the mission today. Oh, and I almost forgot about how were the Indians called. Anyway I hope you’ll enjoy it. Get ready, 3…2… 1…. Blast off!
Mission
San Diego de Alcala, which was to be the first of the famous California
Missions. It was found in the 1rst of July, 1769.A lot of missionaries and
Spaniards were at the mission a long time ago. There were like 219 Spaniards.
The real founder of the mission was Fray Junipero Serra who was a great person.
He was the one who built the mission. Fray Junipero Serra helped the Indians
and traded them food for cloth and clothes. Father Serra considered the loss of
a few trinkets a small price to pay for the friendship of the natives, but
Spanish soldiers were resentful.
Eventually, the mission was moved six miles inland
to separate mission and presidio. Then they made The Royal Road, but in Spain
they called it “El Camino Real”. This road takes you to the 21 missions, but
they’re all separated in different ways.
The king of Spain always went in the royal road with his servants. One day some Indians that were furiously
angry attacked them.
They killed everyone at the mission and destroyed the building. Once that was over the mission was destroyed and deserted until Junipero Serra came from a meeting at Spain. Then they rebuilt the mission about one year later after the incident at the mission. They had a hard time building it, but they in about enough time. They really didn’t like the visit of those Indians that were angry.
Here's a fact: did you know that they had to get more people to build the mission for them so they could still have a mission? Fray Serra was happy that the mission was still alive in the world for people to see. The mission had a lot of people that guarded the mission with there life. The memory of the incident was still in Junipero’s mind and he didn’t like how the mission was destroyed and covered with bloodshed, all covered around with it. This was better for the mission to live than get destroyed.
The mission today is fun for kids to learn. The San Diego museum has more information of the mission like, how the Indians of the mission called (I’ll tell you right now the Indians were called the Kumeyaay Indians in their time). Kids are trying to find more stuff of the mission’s history and show it to the museum (and the Indians burned up the old cross and use it for firewood, imagine that). Why was mission built? Well, they built it to remind us of Junipero, but now it attracts tourists that are eager to see historical stuff that are important and like to look around them. San Diego really is interesting isn’t it (I really want to go to the mission, but I can’t because it’s to far away)?