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1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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The 31state to be admitted to the Union, September 9, 1850, which date is still a legal holiday in California, under the name of "Admission Day". In Spanish colonial times California included also the peninsula of Lower California; this never was a part of the United States, and now belongs to Mexico. As the earliest missionaries came by way of Mexico, they first evangelized Lower California, Father Juan Salvatierra, S.J., founding the mission of Loreto on San Dionisio Bay, October 19, 1697, the first of a chain of 18 Jesuit missions in Lower California. The first mission within the limits of the present State of California was founded at San Diego, July 16, 1769, by the Franciscan Father Junipero Serra, who also founded eight other missions. The Franciscans not only Christianized the Indians, but also civilized them and taught them useful trades; many non-Catholic writers, e.g., C. F. Lummis and A. Forbes, have praised the wisdom and humanity of the Franciscan system of treating the aborigines.

The early Spanish missionaries left their mark on Californian place-names, including

Many of the above names, and several similar ones, occur also in California as names of counties, and of natural features such as islands, mountains, bays, rivers, etc.

California is divided ecclesiastically into the following archdioceses,

and the following dioceses,

See also,

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'California'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​c/california.html. 1910.
 
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