Posted on 10/08/2025 7:10:56 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Since 1976, a nearly 30-foot-tall statue depicting Saint Junipero Serra overlooked Highway 280 in Hillsborough, but not any more.
Many were recently surprised to find the statue was no longer in its usual spot, including the Archbishop of San Francisco.
Here one day, seemingly gone the next.
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Hos about we bulldoze some of those hideous Indian casinos here in California
If it’s any consolation, it was a wretchedly bad modern POS statue
What was the source of labor for all those missions built up and down the coast?
I was told Serra’s folks. They just walked up to the Indians and asked them: “Do you want to live?”
Very Hobbitish!
"Do you want to live" in the sense that the natives were attracted to the prosperity of the missions which looked better to them than living a hand to mouth existence, as many of them were doing. The Padres invited them in with the stipulations that they had to work, worship, and obey the law like Spanish subjects and they largely thrived in the order that the missions offered. The Spanish brought with them a feudal society that echoed that of Spain after throwing off 500 years of Moslem occupation. The Indians were treated no worse than Spanish lower class citizens in Spain. My maternal grandmother was of a tribe that were California Mission Indian and I have read extensively on this. By all contemporary accounts, the majority of the Indians who lived at the missions (minus the malcontents) loved the Padres, who protected them from the imprecations of the Spanish soldiers and military governors.
Have you read the Book of Joshua?
God will sometimes use man's propensity for violence for His own ends.
The Israelites were violent. But so were the Canaanites. And so too the Indians.
It wasn't intended to be modern art. Louie Dubois, the guy that built the statue, failed to follow the original scaled down master that was approved for the project. He laid the stucco netting over welded piping was laying around his back yard. The final statue was way out of proportion relative to the original smaller master that was really nice.
The stucco guy was a local that gave Louie a good price on the job.
Take my latin mass, I aint leaving God. St Junipero is still praying for us!
Interesting. Thank you.
Wait you mean kind of like what our government did in taking the Indians land? Or like different tribes of Indians did to each other?
Like that house nearby that looks like something out of the Flintstones.
They were at one with the world.
I’m no art critic, but it wasn’t very pretty.
I’ve seen better sand sculptures at the beach...............
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