JUNIPEROSERRA
Junipero Serra
Junípero Serra, O.F.M.,, known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue, was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, which at the time were in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain. He began in San Diego on July 16, 1769, and established his headquarters near Monterey, California at Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Junipero Serra
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