GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 3: Western United States
California: CA-17

Our Lady of Soledad Church
52-525 Oasis Palms Avenue
Coachella, CA 92236

Phone: 760-398-5577

 

History: Our Lady of Soledad Church, Coachella, Riverside County, California, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of San Bernardino (San Bernardino, California). San Bernardino diocesan priests and the Congregation of the Holy Cross (Holy Cross of Indiana Province) (Archives: South Bend, Indiana) at Our Lady of Soledad have attended to the following Native American (Cahuilla) missions in Riverside County, California:

1927-present	Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Chapel (Cahuilla), Thermal, Torres-Martinez Reservation
1932-present	Augustine Reservation station (Cahuilla)
1932-present	Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission (Cahuilla), Palm Springs
1932-present	Twenty-nine Palms Reservation station (Cahuilla)

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1927-ongoing

Volume: Several entries among several volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for the Native American parishioners of the missions attended from Our Lady of Soledad Church.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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