Posted on 07/14/2020 6:32:21 PM PDT by marshmallow
Denver Newsroom, Jul 14, 2020 / 11:30 am MT (CNA).- A California Catholic university has placed a statue of St. Junipero Serra in storage after at least three statues of the saint have been toppled by protestors in the state.
“In response to a statement from Archbishop Gomez, an outdoor statue of St. Junipero Serra on the University of San Diego campus was moved to temporary storage after several outdoor statues of the saint have been damaged in California,” a spokesman for the University of San Diego told CNA July 14.
The university referenced a June 29 letter from Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, who wrote that while “those attacking St. Junípero’s good name and vandalizing his memorials do not know his true character or the actual historical record,” increased security precautions meant that some California churches would “probably have to relocate some statues to our beloved saint or risk their desecration.”
Public statues of the saint were in June toppled in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and on July 4, a statue of Serra on the grounds of California’s state capitol in Sacramento was torn down, burned, and beaten with sledgehammers.
“The sad truth is that, beginning decades ago, activists started ‘revising’ history to make St. Junípero the focus of all the abuses committed against California’s indigenous peoples,” Gomez wrote in his June 29 letter.
“But the crimes and abuses that our saint is blamed for — slanders that are spread widely today over the internet and sometimes repeated by public figures — actually happened long after his death.”
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And San Jose, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, etc. etc. Yep, mean ol’ Junipero Serra practically named the whole freakin’ state.
I guess Oakland is safe. Well, actually it’s extremely unsafe, but that’s for another thread.
Madison protesters tear down
Capitol statues, attack state Senator
from Milwaukee as fury erupts again
THIS IS HOW THEY REPORT A STORY
ABOUT A CIVIL WAR HERO’S STATUE
GETTING TORN DOWN
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Cowards. Either (a) put the religious statue in storage or (b) ask students to pray at the statue 24/7 for a month. (b) takes courage.
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