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The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 by Father Fermín Lasuén who, with the assistance of Fray Francisco Dumetz and in the presence of troops and natives, performed the ceremonies and dedicated the mission to San Fernando Rey de España, making it the fourth mission site he had established; ten children were baptized on the first day ...
The Convento Building, known for its iconic arched portico or colonnade, was built between 1808 and 1822 and is the only original building remaining at the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the Mission Hills section of San Fernando Valley in California in the United States.
Learn about the history, organization, and challenges of the Catholic Church in Vietnam, the fifth largest Catholic population in Asia. Find out how missionaries, priests, and bishops influenced Vietnamese culture, politics, and society.
William Thomas Perkins Jr. (August 10, 1947 – October 12, 1967) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the United States' highest military decoration for valor — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic action on October 12, 1967, during the Vietnam War in which he smothered an exploding grenade with his body to save the lives of three fellow Marines.
Burials in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery — at Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley, California. The cemetery, in use since the 18th century, is located in the Mission Hills community of the City of Los Angeles, Southern California.
Two years earlier, in 2003, 60,000 copies of Bible and 50,000 copies of New Testament (all in Vietnamese) were printed in Vietnam with the permission of local authorities. Same year, 10,000 copies of the Chinese language Bible were printed in Vietnam for the local Chinese community. 7,555 copies of them were sold in a few months.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [4] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.
A Catholic cemetery in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1800 and owned by the Los Angeles Archdiocese. It has over 30,000 graves and many notable interments, such as actors, directors, composers and athletes.