BACKSTORY: From The Official Mission San Juan Capistrano website: Mission San Juan Capistrano was first founded in 1775 by Father Lasuen, on October 30th. But just a few weeks after the party of padres and soldiers arrived, they received word of the revolt occurring in San Diego. The founding padres, and soldiers decided to leave San Juan Capistrano, and go back to San Diego to help there. Once things had settled in San Diego, Father Serra personally led a party to re-found Mission San Juan Capistrano on All Saint’s Day, November 1, 1776. Mission San Juan Capistrano, became the seventh of twenty-one missions to be founded in Alta California
