<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> http://www.sanluisrey.org/ </Td> </Tr> <P> Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is a former Spanish mission in an unincorporated part of San Diego County, surrounded by the present - day city of Oceanside, California, United States . The mission was founded on June 13, 1798 by Padre Fermín Lasuén, and was the eighteenth of the Spanish missions established in California . Named for Saint Louis, the mission lent its name to the Luiseño tribe of Mission Indians . </P> <P> The current church, built in 1811, is the third church on this location . It is a National Historic Landmark, for its pristine example of a Spanish mission church complex . Today the mission complex functions as a parish church of the Diocese of San Diego as well as a museum and retreat center . Mission San Luis Rey De Francia raised about 26,000 cattle as well as goats, geese, and pigs . </P> <P> The first non-natives to see the mission site were members of the 1769 Portola expedition . Padre Juan Crespi noted in his diary on July 18 that it would be a good spot for future establishment of a mission . He named the place "San Juan Capistrano", but that name was used instead for the mission founded further north in 1776 . The area became a standard camping stop on the road connecting the missions, until the mission establishment 29 years later . </P>

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