Junipero Serra Quotes
We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.
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. 38.
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.