![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Most Reverend Jose Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles, California He understood that the purpose of the Church is to help us all grow as human persons and to respond to God’s call: to love God and love others.” He dedicated his life to the mission of evangelization, to bringing the good news of the Gospel to America. “Junipero Serra is a great example for Catholics. So it is with Junipero Serra, who in the providence of God was destined to be the Apostle of California.” We rejoice all the more when their achievement is coupled with a holiness of life that can truly be called heroic. “At crucial moments in human affairs, God raises up men and women whom he thrusts into the roles of decisive importance for the future development of both society and the Church. Junipero Serra, a Franciscan theologian and scholar, abandons his homeland at the age of 37 and sails to America to found missions in the unexplored region of California. This deluxe edition includes numerous illustrations, most in color, of the life and work of Serra, especially of the missions that dot the landscape of California, many gloriously restored to their original beauty. For the rest of his life he worked tirelessly as a preacher and a missionary in Mexico and California, his motto being “Always forward, never back.”Ĭanonized a saint by Pope Francis in 2015, Father Serra’s presence and work are still very much alive though the beautiful missions that are visited by millions of people every year. After teaching for five years, he answered the call to be a missionary to the New World, and embarked on a ship to Mexico in 1749. ![]() Regarded as a great teacher by his order, his superiors initially made Serra a professor of theology at the Lullian University in Palma, Spain. Capitol.Īrchbishop Couve de Murville presents an historical and spiritual biography of Serra from his childhood and student days in Majorca, Spain, to his time in Mexico, and to his great missionary work in California. As one of the pioneers who created the United States of America, his larger than life-size statue stands in the hall of the U.S. ![]() Well known for the historic missions that he helped establish all along the coast from San Diego to San Francisco (21 in all), Father Serra is even recognized by the secular society of the United States government as the “Founder of California”. Junipero Serra (1713-1784), the tireless Franciscan missionary who came to California in the eighteenth century to evangelize the Native Americans. This work is a popular but thorough biography of St. 23K views, 457 likes, 37 loves, 13 comments, 76 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from EWTN: Junipero Serra was a Franciscan missionary who evangelized present-day California, estabishing missions and. ![]()
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