Mission San Gabriel – San Gabriel, California
This post first appeared on Catholic Traveller in 2006. “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you” (Luke 1:28), is the greeting of the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, when he is sent to ask her to become the Mother of God (Matthew 1:23). How fitting a tribute, that the 4th California Mission, established on the feast of…