This building suffered heavy damage in an 1818 earthquake and was replaced six years later by a new adobe edifice.

Early college history

The mission flourished for more than 50 years despite these setbacks. Beginning in the 1830s, however, the mission lands were repossessed in conjunction with government policy implemented via the Mexico's secularization, and church buildings fell into disrepair. The bishop of Monterey, Dominican Joseph Sadoc Alemany,

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