Mission San Rafael Arcángel
19th-century Franciscan mission in California
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Mission San Rafael Arcángel (Spanish: La Misión del Gloriosísimo Príncipe San Rafael, Arcángel, lit. 'The Mission of the Most Glorious Prince, Archangel Saint Raphael') is a Spanish mission in San Rafael, California.
The original mission was founded in 1817 as an asistencia of Mission San Francisco de Asís to serve as a hospital to treat sick and injured indigenous people, making it Alta California's first sanitarium. The site's milder weather was believed to aid the rehabilitation of patients. It was not intended to be a stand-alone mission, but was granted full mission status in 1822 as it grew and prospered.
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