San Diego (St. James). See page [21].
San Dimas “probably St. Dismas, is popularly supposed to have been the good or converted robber on the right side of Christ on Good Friday. In places he is celebrated by the Latins on March 25. The Greeks have him on a much later date.”—(Fray Zephyrin Engelhardt, O. F. M). San Dimas is the name of a post-village in Los Ángeles County.
San Domingo (St. Dominick). St. Dominick was a Castilian of noble descent, and was the originator of the Dominican Order of barefoot priests, and of the use of the rosary.
Sanel, the name of a former Indian village called variously Se-nel, Sah-nel, Sai-nel and Sanel. “Sanel is derived from cané (sweathouse), and was the name of a very large village situated south of the town of Sanel, on the eastern side of Hopland Valley.”—(Barrett, in Univ. Publ. in Arch. and Tech.)
San Emygdio, “English or Latin St. Emygdius, Bishop and Martyr, feast August 5. The Roman Martyrology has this on him: ‘St. Emygdius, Bishop and Martyr, was consecrated Bishop by Pope St. Marcellus and sent to preach the Gospel at Ascoli. He received the crown of Martyrdom for confessing Christ, under Diocletian.’ He is invoked against earthquakes.”—(Fray Zephyrin Engelhardt).
San Felipe (St. Philip). See page [180].
San Fernando (St. Ferdinand). See page [69].
San Francisco (St. Francis). See page [185].
San Francisco de las Llagas (St. Francis of the “stigmata”). See page [179].
San Francisquito (little St. Francis). Land grant.