Why is Los Angeles also called city of angels?

Portion of "The Virgin With Angels," painted by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1900. There is probably no other major city in America whose original name is as disputed as that of Los Angeles. ... The chapel, ruined and in need of repair, was located on what the Italians called a porziuncola or "very small parcel of land. read more

Angeles ( with an accent over the A) means Angels in Spanish, so Los Angeles means"The Angels". Since Los Angeles is a city ( obviously), the word city has been added to the nickname so now it's"City of the Angels". read more

The name Los Angeles means"The Angels" in Spanish. It is also rolls more easily off of the tongue than the original settlement's name,"El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula" , which translates as"The town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the Porciuncula River". read more

then again, Monsignor Francis J. Weber, records author and archivist for the l. a. Archdiocese, argues that the metropolis’s unique name became El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de la de Porciúncula (English: The metropolis of Our girl of the Angels of Porciúncula). read more