• Two dormitories were built for the students of Saint Anthony’s, one of which exists today as the Religious Education Center of Mission San Diego de Alcalá.
  • Father Serra founded the Mission of San Fernando Velicatá in Baja California and then Mission San Diego de Alcalá in Alta California.
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  • Mission San Diego de Alcala stands on one of the oldest sites of Spanish occupation in California.
  • Did you know that Mission San Diego de Alcalá was originally located near the Presidio of San Diego but was moved six miles east due to water scarcity?
  • Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the great California missions , marks the origin of Christianity in the American west.
  • In 1797 there were 565 new Indians added to the mission which brought the total to 1,400 Indians living at the Mission San Diego de Alcala.
  • San Diego occupies a unique place in California’s history, as the site of the first of the California missions, and one of four Spanish presidios.
  • Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá was the first Franciscan mission in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.