Junipero Serra Quotes
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
Citations
Serra, Junípero. Letter to Francisco Palou. 3 July 1769. California: A History of Upper and Lower California, by Alexander Forbes, Smith, Elder and Co., 1839, p. 36.
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Junípero Serra y Ferrer O.F.M. was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He later 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 Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain.