Pope Francis Announces Sainthood for Junipero Serra, Founder of California Missions

Reuters and KQED-TV ^ | January 15, 2015 | Dan Brekke

[2ndDivisionVet]

Pope Francis announced Thursday that he will canonize Father Junipero Serra, the founder of California

[Salvation]

If we don’t pray for more vocations we soon won’t have priests.

Start a Serra Club in your area!

[ifinnegan]

And there’s a lot of roads named after him.

[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

We had a Serra High School at one time.

[Salvation]

Catholic Ping!

[maine-iac7]

His mission hdqrs, Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, (Carmel Mission), was just down hill from I used to live on Camino Real...in Carmel-By-THe-Sea.

'Favorite things about the residential area of Carmel - no sidewalks and no no house numbers. No one could find you unless you gave them directions, like: "5th house down on the right, gray stucco"

[ifinnegan]

Hoon ipp arrow Sarah.

I always thought it was June e pair-o when I was a kid.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

The leftists in California hate Junipero Serra. They disparage him for bringing Christianity to the Indians of California and slur him as an abuser of those very people he work so hard for.

I am baffled by the actions of this Pope who sends out so many mixed messages by being traditional on one hand and by being progressive on the other.

[logician2u]

Yes, and songs too:

• Que serra, serra
• Serrabande
• Serranade in Bleu
• Sunrise Serranade
• Serranade from "The Student Prince"
• Schubert's Serranade

Pardon the imprecise spelling. It's phonetically correct anyway. (Some Californians who should know better pronounce Father Serra's name as "Sierra" and must think the mountain range was named for him.)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Probably that someone that high up doesn’t really make these kinds of decisions, rather, a committee of some kind brought this about. That’s one thing I learned being around flag officers and even higher officials. Delegate, delegate, delegate.

[logician2u]

You mean there a leftist Catholics?

What a surprise.

[logician2u]

“a” = “are”, obviously

[Vendome]

He wants to make a mass murderer a saint?

S what I heard today.

Anyway, I think he should be a saint.

[ifinnegan]

“Father Serra’s name as “Sierra” and must think the mountain range was named for him.)”

It wasn’t?

Oh yeah, it was Him and Nevada Slim.

[Yaelle]

Yay for all those bells on the roads!!! There’s one less than a mile from where I’m sitting!

Yay for all the Father Serras who have had to live for years in sugar cube missions!!!!

Yay for the 4th grade!!!!

[PieterCasparzen]

Have Marx (the husband of Jenny von Westphalen, not the comedian) and Engels received their sainthoods yet ?

[Salvation]

He is also buried there.

[Salvation]

What are you talking about?

[Salvation]

SERRA not with the i in it.