San Juan Capistrano is the Mission perhaps as famous for it's ruins as it is for the beautiful church which was originally built there. The ruins are all that remains of what was once the largest of all of the California Missions. An earthquake in 1812, in the middle of Mass collapsed the dome and killed 40 of the faithful. Rather than try to rebuild it the Franciscans re-occupied the original more humble building. The only Mission in the California Chain where we know for sure Junipero Serra Celebrated Mass
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