He is honored here in Santa Barbara with a street close to the beautiful mission :). Thank you God for this great servant and inspiration.
This is so interesting, thanks. I love Fr. Serra, love the fact that half of our entire state was dedicated to the Lord by this man and his good helpers. (Boy do we need that). I will print this off for my 3rd graders, who learn, of course, how poorly the Indians were treated by the ‘bad white people.’ (They also learn that men and women carried pick axes into the gold mines during the Gold Rush. I have to constantly RE-educate them.) Women?? Pick axes??
**Thank you God for this great servant and inspiration.**
Amen to your prayer.