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SAN FRANCISCO MISSION

The mission of San Francisco de la Espada, (St. Francis of the Sword) was located a quarter of a league to the South of San Juan Capistrano and three leagues distant from the San Antonio Mission and garrison.

Eighth hundred and fifteen people had been baptized there since its foundation and 513 had been granted burial. In 1972, 52 families, with 207 members from the Paca, Borrado and Maraquita settlements conformed it.
The monastery consisted of a church, a sacristy, four upper and three lower cells, and spacious weaving rooms, grain storage rooms and corridors, all of which were built out of stone.

The Indians prayed the Father Ripalda Catechism before commencing work. In addition, the missionaries explained the significance of the text of the Catechism to them in three or four afternoons each week.