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  2. Junípero Serra - Wikipedia

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    Serra was born Miquel Josep Serra i Ferrer [17] (this name is Catalan, in Castilian it is Miguel José Serra y Ferrer) in the village of Petra on the island of Mallorca (Majorca) in the Balearic Islands off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. [18] His father Antonio Nadal Serra and mother Margarita Rosa Ferrer were married in 1707. [19]

  3. Fermín de Lasuén - Wikipedia

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    Felipe de Neve, 4th Governor of the Californias.. In 1774, Fermin Lasuén requested to return to the College of San Fernando in Mexico City.The request was denied, and Lasuén was eventually appointed by Padre Serra as rector of Mission San Diego, which was considered at the time to be the poorest and most unstable of the existing missions.

  4. Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo - Wikipedia

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    Mission Carmel (a.k.a.The Carmel Mission) was the second mission built by Franciscan missionaries in Upper California.It was first established as Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Monterey, California near the native village of Tamo on June 3, 1770, by Father Junípero Serra.

  5. Statues topple and a Catholic church burns as California ...

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    Statues of the Spanish missionary Junípero Serra were recently toppled in the U.S. cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento as part of a national movement for racial justice sparked by ...

  6. Gaspar de Portolá - Wikipedia

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    Junípero Serra founded two more missions during the expedition: San Diego de Alcalá on July 16, 1769 and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo on June 3, 1770. Rivera reached the site of present-day San Diego in May, established a camp in the area that is now Old Town and awaited the arrival of the others.

  7. Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa - Wikipedia

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    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 Obispo Creek and Serra celebrated the first mass. Following the first mass, Father Junípero Serra left the responsibility of construction to Father José Cavaller. [12]

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    The decision about whether Narkis Golan's son can stay in Brooklyn, New York or must return to Milan, Italy to live with his father, Isacco Jacky Saada, will follow a contentious court battle.