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    Luis Jayme or Lluís Jaume O.F.M. (October 18, 1740 – November 5, 1775), born Melcior Jaume Vallespir, was a Spanish-born Roman Catholic priest of the Franciscan Order. He was the first Catholic martyr who died in Alta California.

  2. Jan 1, 1976 · It was just two hundred years ago that the soil of the Pacific Slope was reddened by the blood of that youthful friar. Sixteen of the Franciscans who carried the banner of Christ along El Camino Real hailed from Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands, off the Spanish coast.

  3. Aug 24, 2020 · The Father Luis Jayme Cross. Father Melcor (Luis) Jayme became pastor of Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1771 and was instrumental in moving the mission to its present site – six miles east of the original site.

  4. In October of 1770, Fr. Jayme set out for Alta California to begin his ten-year commitment to the California Missions. He assumed his post as pastor of the Mission San Diego de Alcalá and eagerly looked forward to working with the Native Americans.

  5. Little by little we are learning more about the burning of the San Diego Mission by the Indians in 1775, and the consequent violent death of Father Luis Jayme. One of the few existing original letters written by Father Jayme came into the pos­session of the San Diego Public Library through a purchase from the Thomas Winthrop Streeter Collection.

  6. Father Melcor (Luis) Jayme became pastor of Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1771 and was instrumental in moving the mission to its present site – six miles east of the original site.

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  8. Jul 1, 1997 · In this sense, the insurrection was an unqualified success — Luis Jayme, the evil practitioner of the strange religion was killed, the sacred objects were removed and distributed across the land, and a cleansing fire swept across the dreaded mission grounds.

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