JUNÍPERO SERRA

BIOGRAPHY

• Junípero Serra was born in Petra, Majorca, Spain in 1730.
• He was born under the name Miquel Josep Serra I Ferrer.
• He took the name Junípero when he joined the Franciscan order after St. Jupiter.
• At the age of 27 he left for the Americas and taught Philosophy at the Convento de San Francisco

BIOGRAPHY

• In 1749 Junípero Serra gave up his carrier as a priest and as professor at a university to become an apostolic missionary and convert Native Americans to catholisism.
• At the age of 56 Junípero Serra help an important role in the settlement and colanization of California.

BIOGRAPHY

• Junípero Serra founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of the 21Spanish missions in California.
• He founded missions from San Diego (mission San Diego de Alcalá)all the way up to San Francisco (misión San Francisco de Asís)
• The missions goals were to convert Native American to christianity in California.
• Junípero Serra's headquarters during his founding of the Californian missions was mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo near Monterey, California.

BIOGRAPHY

• On August 28, 1784, at the age of 70, Junípero Serra died at Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo.
• He is buried there under the sanctuary floor.

BIOGRAPHY

• Junípero Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988,
• He will be canonized on September 23, 2015 in Washington D.C. by Pope Francis.

ICONOGRAPHY

• Junípero Serra can be seen wearing a Franciscan habit with a monastic haircut.
• He holds a large cross in his right hand and and holds miniature replica of Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo in his left hand.

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PATRONAGE

• Junípero Serra's feast day is celebrated on July 1st and he is the patron of vocations.

QUOTE

• "We found on our journey,as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with so much confidence and good-will as if they had known us their whole lives."

QUOTE

• "Found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes;we also found an abundance of rose, which appeared to be like those of Castile."

PRAYER

• Lord Jesus Christ, reward the apostolic zeal of Your Seraphic son, Blessed Junípero Serra, who leaving home and fatherland, labored for the salvation of souls in Spain, Mexico and California. By Your Most Holy Name may he be raised to the full honors of the altar. Through the intercession of Blessed Serra, look with favor on our special prayers which have no earthly answer. This we pray through Christ our Lord. Amen

QUESTIONS

• How many missions did Junípero Serra help establish?
• How far did the missions stretch across California?
• What did Junípero Serra do before he was a missionary?
• What does he ususally hold in his iconography?
• What is he the Patron for?

ANSWERS

• 9
• From San Diego to San Francisco.
• He was a philosophy professor.
• A cross and a model of one of his missions.
• Vocations.

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