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Junípero Serra is the second native saint of the Balearic Islands after Catherine of Palma. [153] He is also included among the Saints of the United States and México. [155] Serra's feast day is celebrated on July 1 in the United States and on August 28 everywhere.
Who was Junípero Serra? St. Junípero Serra, the patron Saint of California, lived his life in radical service to others, founded countless missions in California, and went to great lengths to spread the Gospel to all he met. He was canonized in Washington, DC in 2015 by Pope Francis.
May 18, 2018 · A Franciscan missionary and founder of the Spanish missions of California, Junípero Serra (1713-1784) was one of the most respected and best-known figures in California history. Junípero Serra whose sobriquets "Apostle of California" and "Father of the Missions" typify the love and esteem with which he is still regarded, was born Miguel José ...
Jan 28, 2015 · A postcard of Junipero Serra from around 1915. Pope Francis recently announced that he will canonize Serra when he travels to the U.S. this fall. The name Junípero Serra is well known in ...
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Confessor. Fra Junípero Serra (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded a mission chain in Alta California and is remembered both for his effective missionary work and his courageous insistence on the rights of Native Americans . Serra joined the Franciscans and entered the Order of Friars Minor in 1730.
In the 1760s, an expedition dispatched to fortify California, led by Gaspar de Portolà and Junípero Serra, was marked by slavery, forced conversions, and genocide through the introduction of disease” (Wikipedia: Genocide of indigenous peoples). The worst abuses of the California Indians, however, came much later, according to Ruben Mendoza ...
