Mission San Miguel Arcángel
San Miguel's various-sized arches are a noted feature of this mission
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| Location | 775 Mission Street San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California 93451 |
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| Coordinates | 35°44′41″N 120°41′53″W / 35.74472°N 120.69806°WCoordinates: 35°44′41″N 120°41′53″W / 35.74472°N 120.69806°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión del Gloriosísimo Príncipe Arcángel, Señor San Miguel |
| English translation | The Mission of the Very Glorious Archangel Prince, Sir Saint Michael |
| Patron | Saint Michael the Archangel |
| Nickname(s) | "Mission on the Highway" ... "The Unretouched Mission" |
| Founding date | July 25, 1797 |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín Lasuén |
| Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
| Built | 1821 |
| Architectural style(s) | Queen Anne |
| Founding Order | Sixteenth |
| Military district | Third |
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Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Salinan |
| Native place name(s) | Valica |
| Baptisms | 2,471 |
| Marriages | 764 |
| Burials | 1,868 |
| Secularized | 1834 |
| Returned to the Church | 1859 |
| Governing body | Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey |
| Current use | Parish Church |
| Designated | July 14, 1971 |
| Reference no. | 71000191 |
| Designated | March 20, 2006 |
| Reference no. | #326 |
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| http://www.missionsanmiguel.org/ | |
Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California. It was established on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize.
The mission remains in use as a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey. After being closed to the public for six years due to the 2003 San Simeon earthquake, the church reopened on September 29, 2009. Inside the church are murals designed by Esteban Munras.
The mission was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was named to a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
Bells were vitally important to daily life at any mission. The bells were rung at mealtimes, to call the Mission residents to work and to religious services, during births and funerals, to signal the approach of a ship or returning missionary, and at other times; novices were instructed in the intricate rituals associated with the ringing the mission bells.
Father Fermín Lasuén and Father Buenaventura Sitjar founded the mission on July 25, 1797, making it the sixteenth California mission. Its location between Mission San Luis Obispo and Mission San Antonio de Padua provided a stop on the trip that had previously taken two days. A temporary wooden church was built with living quarters. The site was picked as it was close to a Salinan Indian village called Vahca. In 1798 the small chapel was replaced. In 1816 to 1818 a new church was constructed with a tile roof and courtyard.
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