April 22, 2006 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Mission Santa Ysabel, Santa Ysabel, California Mission Santa Ysabel is located on State Highway 79 just north of Santa Ysabel in San Diego County, California   Mission Santa Ysabel blev grundlagt i 1818 og bygget i 1819 som støttemission til Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, med det formål at omvende de omkringboende indianere. Der er intet tilbage af den oprindelige missionsbygning, og den nuværende kirke blev bygget i 1924 og navngivet Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church. Menigheden består stadig mest af missionsindianere. Mission Santa Ysabel was founded in 1818 and built in 1819 as an asistencia to Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, with the purpose of converting the Indians living in the surrounding area. Nothing remains of the original mission structure, and the present church was built in 1924 and named Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church. The congregation still consists mainly of Kumeyaay Indians.     Indeni kirken ~ Inside the Church

De Forsvundne Klokkers Engel ~ Angel of the Lost Bells   Dette gamle billede viser de oprindelige kirkeklokker, som var fra 1723 og 1767, og var nogle af Californiens ældste. De blev stjålet i 1926, og mens klokkeknebelerne blev fundet næste dag, fik menigheden aldrig klokkerne tilbage. This old photograph shows the original church bells which were from 1723 and 1767, and were some of the oldest in California. They were stolen in 1926, and while the clappers were found the next day, the bells were never returned. De gamle knebeler ~ The old clappers   De moderne klokker ~ The present day bells     Mission Santa Ysabel omfatter også et lillebitte, men forholdsvis imponerende Indianermuseum. Mission Santa Ysabel also includes a tiny but comparatively impressive Indian museum. Hovedprydelse ~ Head Dress     Museet har omkring hundrede gamle fotografier af lokale bebore: ~ The museum holds about a hundred old photographs of local residents:   Cinon Duro (Hokoyel Mutawir) Mesa Grande indianernes sidste høvding. Han døde 17. september, 1906. Last chief of the Mesa Grande Indians. He died September 17, 1906.

Cecilia Charlie   Maria Antonia Cuero

Eksempler på tegninger indianerne skrabede i jordskorpen i forsøg på at kommunikere med primitive guder, som nær Blythe, Calfornien. Examples of drawings scratched into the earth's surface by Indians in attempts to communicate with primitive deities, as was done with the intaglios near Blythe, California.

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