Junipero Serra - Carmel, CA
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N 36° 33.331 W 121° 55.220
10S E 596622 N 4046108
Located in Devendorf Park in Carmel, California
Waymark Code: WMRMK8
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/08/2016
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This wooden sculpture depicts Junipero Seera - probably a little larger than life-sozed...standing and wearing his friar's robes. He holds a Bible casually in front of him with both hands.
Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"Junípero Serra y Ferrer, O.F.M., (/hu?'n?p?ro? 's?r?/; Spanish: [xu'nipe?o 'sera], Catalan: Juníper Serra i Ferrer) (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain.
Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988, in Vatican City. Pope Francis canonised him on September 23, 2015, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., during his first visit to the United States.[4] Because of Serra's recorded acts of piety combined with his missionary efforts, he was granted the posthumous title Apostle of California.
The declaration of Serra as a Catholic saint by the Holy See was controversial with some Native Americans who criticize Serra's treatment of their ancestors and associate him with the suppression of their culture."