After the Forster Family left the mission, it fell into ruin. March 18, 1865, President Lincoln signed a proclamation returning the mission to the Catholic Church. At the end of the 1800's the Landmark Club took over with their temporary leasing and preservation of the mission.
During the most productive years, 1812-1832, the Padres used the sitting room for all their business with traders, ships captains and visiting priests. They wrote letters and read in the evenings.
The padres kitchens were more advanced than most cooking areas on the Spanish frontier at the time.
Here is one way they used their fires to cook. They also smoked meats here for later use.
This small skink or lizard ran out in front of me.
I guess these are prayer candles by Jim.
This is their chapel with lots of gold at the front.
I think this is used for baptizing babies by sprinkling.
Remember that garden gate on the outside walk? This is the other end looking out toward the wall and the walk.
More iron work and arches.
I think this is where the Friars or Padres, or whatever they are called today, live. This was not open to the public.
This is a mud oven.
This is near where the swallows make their nests. Read about the swallows returning to Capistrano on the internet.
These swallow nests were in the peak of the end of a building.
These are bells in the original part of the mission. This tour guide is instructing a group of tourists.
Much of this part of the mission has not been rebuilt.
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