Fray Junipero Serra - 200 Years - San Gabriel CA
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N 34° 05.823 W 118° 06.430
11S E 397869 N 3773469
A plaque located at Mission San Gabriel.
Waymark Code: WMRVW8
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/09/2016
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The plaque reads:
"This plaque honors the memory of
FRAY JUNIPERO SERRA
“The Apostle of California”
Who died 200 years ago after a life dedicated to spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.
1784-1984
PRESENTED BY SERRA INTERNATIONAL
15,000 Catholic laymen in 31 countries who in 1984 celebrate 50 years of Fostering Vocations to Priesthood and Religious Life
“ALWAYS TO GO FORWARD & NEVER TO TURN BACK”"
Wikipedia (
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"Junípero Serra y Ferrer, O.F.M.,... (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. 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."