Junipero Serra #2 - Carmel, CA
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N 36° 32.566 W 121° 55.217
10S E 596642 N 4044694
One of at least two sculptures of Junipero Serra at Mission Carmel.
Waymark Code: WMRMYP
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2016
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This smaller than life-sized sculpture of Junipero Serra depicts him standing in his friar's robes and holding a staff in his right hand. The figure has a quizzical look on his face.
The accompanying plaque reads:
"Fray Junipero Serra
1713-1784
Founder of the California Missions
In Memory of Eugene B. Hannon
Donated by William H. Hannon Foundation"
See the other life-sized sculpture located near the entrance at (
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Wikipedia (
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"Junípero Serra y Ferrer, O.F.M.,... 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."