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When the party reached San Diego on July 1, Serra stayed behind to start Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions [29] (including the nearby Visita de la Presentación, also founded under Serra's leadership). Junipero Serra moved to the area that is now Monterey in 1770, and founded Mission San Carlos Borroméo de ...
Junipero Serra Peak is the highest mountain in the Santa Lucia range of central California with a height of 1,785 metres (5,856 feet). [1] It is also the highest peak in Monterey County , and is located within the boundaries of Los Padres National Forest . [ 2 ]
Junipero Serra County Park (sometimes shortened to Junipero Serra Park) is a 103-acre (42 ha) park in the hills overlooking San Bruno and Millbrae, California, east of Interstate 280 and west of State Route 82 (El Camino Real).
Junípero Serra High School (commonly Serra or JSHS) is a Private, Catholic college preparatory high school in San Mateo, California, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. A part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco , this school provides education for young men.
A 30-foot (9.1 m) tall statue of Junípero Serra was installed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the U.S. state of California. It had first been erected in 1907 and sculpted by Douglas Tilden. The memorial was toppled on June 19, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, as a Juneteenth commemoration. [1]
It replaces a statue of Father Junípero Serra, the founder of California’s notorious mission system, long a symbol of Native pain and oppression. Protesters toppled Serra’s statue in 2020.
Serra himself was known for intimidating and controlling native subjects, and once baptized, the Chumash were not allowed to leave the missions, nor were the generations to follow. [ 15 ] Father Serra sent an expedition down south to San Luis Obispo to start building the mission, and on September 1, 1772, a cross was erected near San Luis ...
Junípero Serra was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded nine Spanish missions in California. In 1782, Serra founded Mission San Buenaventura, his ninth and final mission, on a site that became downtown Ventura.