Father Junipero Serra, a Franciscan priest who established some of the earliest Spanish missions in California, has been under attack of late. On June 19, 2020, activists pulled-down a Serra statue in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The following day,...
Junipero Serra
Father Junipero Serra is OUT at Stanford
Here is the Stanford press release: Stanford will rename some campus features named for Father Junipero Serra, the 18th-century founder of the California mission system, but will retain the Serra name and the names of other Spanish missionaries and settlers...
Steven Hackel on Junipero Serra
One of the more “Catholic” things that Pope Francis did during his visit to the United States was to canonize 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra. In my post last week on Serra, I referenced Steven Hackel’s biography, Junipero Serra: California’s...
Who is Junipero Serra?
Today he will be the first Catholic saint to be canonized in the United States. But there is controversy involved: http://player.theplatform.com/p/2E2eJC/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=nc_kcra_juniperoserrasaint_150921 Is Steven Hackel on television today? He has written the best scholarly treatment of Serra: Junipero Serra: California’s Founding...