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Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá
Some Uses of Locally-quarried Stone

Statues & Plaques along the Exterior Corridor at the
Front of the San Diego Mission

The following photographs were taken in late May 2012 during a trip we took to San Diego County in which we sought out the mission and various granite quarries. Peggy B. & Pat Perazzo

El Camino Real plaque at the San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Plaque about the San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Plaque about the San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA

El Camino Real plaque at the San Diego Mission

Plaques about the San Diego Mission (above and to the right)

 
Plaque about the San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Plaque in the memory of Fray Junipero Serra, San Diego, CA Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA

Plaque about the San Diego Mission

Plaque in the memory of Fray Junipero Serra

This is the first of many sculptures by James Hubbel that are located along the front corridor of the San Diego Mission.
Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA “A builder of conviction who made every day a better day 1909-1975. Sculptures by James Hubbell” (San Diego Mission) Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA

 

“A builder of conviction who made every day a better day 1909-1975. Sculptures by James Hubbell”

 
Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Front corridor at the San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA

 

Sculptures by James Hubbell

 
Sculpture at the San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA

“San Diego Ruega por Nosotros”

 

 
Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA

 

Sculptures by James Hubbell

 
Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Sculpture by James Hubbell, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Front corridor at the San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA
     
Padre Luis Memorial located across the road from the corridor that holds the sculptures, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA Padre Luis Memorial located across the road from the corridor that holds the sculptures, San Diego Mission, San Diego, CA

Padre Luis Jayme Memorial located across the road from the corridor that holds the sculptures

 
 
Padre Jayme Memorial Sign

Padre Luis Jayme Memorial Sign

Transcription of Padre Luis Jayme Memorial Sign Above

Padre Luis Jayme

Born Melchor Jayme on October 18, 1740, in the farming village of San Juan, Majorca, Spain. In 1760, he was received into the Fraciscan (sic) Order and chose “Luis” as his religious name. Padre Jayme became paster of Mission San Diego in 1771 and was instrumental in moving the Mission inland from the Presidio to the present site in August of 1774. By December of that year, a number of adobe and thatch buildings were constructed. Crops were planted and many natives joined the Mission life and were baptized as Christians.

Progress was being made until the early morning hours of November 5, 1775, when hundreds of natives from remote, villages set fire to the Mission buildings, pillaged the church and cruelly murdered Padre Jayme as he met them with his usual greeting, “¡Amar a Dios, hijos! – Love God, my children!”

Padre Jayme became California's first Christian martyr because of self-sacrifice, devotion, faith and love. His remains are buried in the sanctuary of the church at Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

 
Plaque Commorating Father Jayme

Plaque Commerating Padre Luis Jayme Memorial

The Plaque reads as follows:

In Memory
To

Padre Luis Jaume

First Califonia martyr
who was killed Nov. 4, 1775
by indians on the spot.

Erected and dedicated Sept. 9, 1924
by Native Sons and Daughters
of the Golden West

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