Junípero Serra

Studies 10AC Dr. Gonzalez Politics of History: The Canonization of Father Junipero Serra On Wednesday, September 23rd, Pope Francis arrived to the United States and canonized the first person ever on U.S. soil: Father Junipero Serra. A Franciscan Missionary, he served as “Padre Presidente” of the California Spanish Mission System in the mid to late 18th century. Father Serra founded and oversaw a mission in Baja California and the first nine of twenty-one Spanish missions

Native Americans. They have since grown weary of the deception and the corruption on the part of many different outfits of the Catholic Church. In one particularly angering case from 1986, the Catholic Diocese of Monterey, California, where Father Serra is buried, released a report that found no evidence of Native American mistreatment. Despite the utter lack of respect and false research from that report, there are also proponents of the Church who have acknowledged Serra’s crimes against Native

mission through our every activities. Just as God calls us to become a follower of Christ and spread the Good News, Junipero Serra, a franciscan teacher, devoted his life to carry out God’s will in others.He endured many challenges including his response to God calling, leaving behind his family and career to take on the life of a missionary. However, throughout his lifetime, Serra created nine missions and converted over 9,000 Native Americans into catholicism.God made us in his own image and likeness

One thing that is important to realize about Fray Junipero Serra is his disapproval of the military during the California Mission. When the New World was discovered, people had different views on how they could exploit it. The military saw the New World as a place where they could put the Spanish flag. Whereas the Church saw the New World as a place where they could place their cross. Serra, alongside with the military, set out on his mission to convert Native Americans. Serra’s difficult task

the missions with goods and tools, and being close the coast was easier for the ships to transport goods for the missions, and from the missions. Also been close to the coast was also easier for them to have contact with many indians. Father Junipero Serra converted thousands of indians with the help of other

Native Americans in California Missions Spanish wanted to colonize some of America, just like the Europeans. Building religious based Missions all throughout California was a way for them to maintain ultimate social, political, and economic control. Spanish explorers arrived on the border of California during the 16th century. The very first Franciscan mission was built in San Diego during 1769. By 1833, twenty two Spanish Missions existed from Southern California to Northern California. Native

Luther Burbank was a horticulturist. A horticulturist is someone who uses scientific knowledge to cultivate and propagate plants, and then uses that knowledge to provide technical information to fruit-, vegetable-, and flower-growers as well as farmers. Luther Burbank was born March 7, 1849 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. After his father's death, Burbank moved with his family to a small farm in Groton. At the age of twenty-one he purchased seventeen acres of land near Lunenburg and began a 55-year

Tom did extremely good on the Serra baseball team, but still wanted to play football. According to Doeden, “he was also determined to be on the football team, perhaps dreaming of doing his best impression of his idol, Joe Montana, on the field.” (10) Serra did not have an excellent football program, yet Tom still wanted to play football. He first started to play as a linebacker, but during off

“A Sacred and Praiseworthy Purpose”. This article speaks about the reason for Pope Francis visit, which is to deliver a mass at the National Cathedral where he is expected to finalize sainthood for the eighteenth century Franciscan Missionary Junipero Serra, whom was nicknamed “the Evangelizer of the West” by Pope Francis (Newcomb, 2015). Pope Alexander VI’s edicts gave credence to the missionary’s worthiness of sainthood as being deemed worthy by carrying out the churches spiritual conquests through

a Portuguese-born explorer, claimed the area of southern California for the Spanish Empire in 1542. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2, 1769. In 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel, the first mission in the