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Juan Crespí (Catalan: Joan Crespí; 1 March 1721 – 1 January 1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias. Biography. A native of Majorca, Crespí entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen. He came to New Spain in 1749, and accompanied explorers Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra.
Jun 21, 2021 · The name Juan Crespi never meant much to eighth grader Anaya Zenad and her classmates, other than it was the name of their middle school in El Sobrante. But after the students researched the Franciscan missionary — and his role in expeditions that paved the way for the brutally oppressive California mission system in the 1700s — they felt ...
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Roman Catholic priest, missionary, explorer. Father Juan Crespí ( March 1, 1721 – January 1, 1782) was a Spanish priest who explored what is now the state of California. [1] He entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen. [2] He came to America in 1749, and joined Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra in exploring.
Jun 13, 2021 · In this initial encounter, Father Francisco Gomez and Father Juan Crespí sought to save souls for Christ. Gomez baptized a sick infant whose true name is unknown with the new moniker Maria ...
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Juan Crespi, a Franciscan friar and colleague of missionary Junípero Serra’s, chronicled the expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 and noted that a temblor lasting “as long as half an Ave Maria” toppled a soldier from his horse as they crossed the Santa…
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Nov 17, 1991 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. On Aug. 5, 1769, a short, pale Franciscan missionary named Juan Crespi looked northward from about where Mulholland Drive now spans the San Diego Freeway, across the San...
Reference. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Crespi, Juan. views 3,384,445 updated. Juan Crespi (hwän krās´pē), 1721–82, Spanish explorer in the Southwest, a Franciscan. He came to America in 1749, and in 1767 he went to the peninsula of California in charge of Mission Purísima Concepción.
