16 Short Lessons From the Indomitable St. Junípero Serra
One can learn a lot about how to be an evangelizer from the great Apostle of California
One can learn a lot about how to be an evangelizer from the great Apostle of California
COMMENTARY: Mobs bent on erasing US history in California have focused their ire on the saintly Spanish missionary.
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“Everything he did, from the time he was a boy, was to promote the Catholic Church.”
St. Junipero Serra, the archbishops noted, traveled 2,000 miles to Mexico City when he was aged and infirm “to demand that authorities adopt a native bill of rights he had written.”
In a July 5 statement, Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento said that while “the group’s actions may have been meant to draw attention to the sorrowful, angry memories over California’s past,” their “act of vandalism does little to build the future.”
The Marin County district attorney filed charges over the vandalism of a statue depicting St. Junípero Serra at Mission San Rafael last month.
It is a time of national debate about historical statues.
Felony Vandalism charges have been filed against five people, in connection with last month’s destruction of a statue in San Rafael, California.
Pope Francis canonized St. Junípero Serra personally in Washington, D.C. on September 23, 2015, the first-ever canonization on American soil.
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