Walk for the Ancestors: A 650-mile pilgrimage to the 21 California Missions rejecting sainthood for Junipero Serra - Cara Mumford September 18, 2015 Learn more about the remarkable life of the priest many.
“Always forward, never back.” -Blessed Junipero Serra He really did want to eliminate many aspects of Native culture.”Īs the big days draws near, social media is gearing up, from the religious to the historic to the commercial. “If one looks at the legacy of Serra's missions and what he was trying to do in California, there's no question that his goal was to radically alter Native culture, to have Indians not speak their Native languages, to practice Spanish culture, to transform Native belief patterns in ways that would make them much less Native. “One can point to certain moments in the historical record when Serra does protect Indians, but the larger story I think is one in which his policies and his plans led to tremendous pain and suffering, most of it unintended on his part, among Native peoples,” Hackel said. Serra biographer and historian Steven Hackel told Al Jazeera America that Serra did protect Indians from settlers - and supported leniency for Indians after a 1775 rebellion at Mission San Diego de Alcala, but did more harm than good to the population. There is no shortage of contrary opinions, from people who say Serra is guilty of slavery and even genocide. The church's position is that Serra was a friend of the tribes, protecting them against Spanish conquistadors and settlers along the coast. There are three key aspects to the life and example of Friar Junípero: his missionary zeal, his Marian devotion and his witness of holiness." This was long before the pilgrims of the Mayflower reached the North Atlantic coast.
The pope has this to say about Serra: "He ushered in a new springtime of evangelization in those immense territories, extending from Florida to California, which, in the previous 200 years, had been reached by missionaries from Spain. The new title probably will not put to rest hundreds of years of disagreement over Serra's treatment of Native American Californians as he went about establishing missions up the coast of California, starting with San Diego. View the photo gallery: Basilica of the National Shrine It will be the first canonization Mass in the U.S. Eastern time at a Mass in Spanish for 25,000 ticket holders at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, according to a USA Today rundown of the pope's trip. Serra will be deemed a saint at 4:15 p.m. In a few days, Pope Francis will canonize California's founding friar, Junipero Serra, during a visit to America.
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