San Gabriel two barrels brandy, San Buenaventura said
it would try to make up deficits or supply church furniture, etc. Thus
Payeras's zeal and the willingness of the Los Angelenos to pay for wine
and brandy, which they doubtless drank "to the success of the church,"
completed the structure, and December 8, 1822, it was formally
dedicated. Auguste Wey writes:

"The oldest church in Los Angeles is known in local American
parlance as 'The Plaza Church,' 'Our Lady,' 'Our Lady of
Angels,' 'Church of Our Lady,' 'Church of the Angels,'
'Father Liebana's Church,' and 'The Adobe Church.' It is
formally the church of Nuestra Senora, Reina de los
Angeles--Our Lady, Queen of the Angels--from whom Los Angeles
gets its name."

That is, the city gets its name from Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels,
not from the church, as the pueblo was named long before the church was
even suggested.

The plaza was formally moved to its present site in 1835, May 23, when
the government was changed from that of a pueblo to a city.

Concerning the name of the pueblo and river Rev. Joachin Adam, vicar
general of the diocese, in a paper read before the Historical Society of
Southern California several years ago, said:

"The name Los Angeles is probably derived from the fact that
the expedition by land, in search of the harbor of Monterey,
passed through this place on the 2d of August, 1769, a day
when the Franciscan missionaries celebrate the feast of
Nuestra Senora de los Angeles--Our Lady of the Angels. This
expedition left San Diego July 14, 1769, and reached here on
the first of August, when they killed for the first time some
_berrendos_, or antelope. On the second, they saw a large
stream with much good land, which they called Porciuncula on
account of commencing on that day the jubilee called
Porciuncula, granted to St. Francis while praying in the
little church of Our Lady of the Angels, near Assisi, in
Italy, commonly called Della Porciuncula from a hamlet of
that name near by. This was the original name of the Los
Angeles River."

The last two recorded burials within the walls of the Los Angeles chapel
are those of the young wife of Nathaniel M. Pryor, "buried on the
left-hand side facing the altar," and of Dona Eustaquia, mother of the
Dons Andres, Jesus, and Pio Pico, all intimately connected with the
history of the later da