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11 quotes by Junipero Serra

Monument of Junípero Serra (with Juaneño Indian boy) on plaza de San Francisco de Asis in Havana Junípero Serra Ferrer, O.F.M., (/dʒuːnɨˈpɛroʊ ˈsɛrə/; Spanish: [xuˈnipeɾo ˈsera]) (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, which at the time were in Alta California in the Province of...
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I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

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Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called... →

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Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

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We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us... →

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We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by... →

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As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much... →

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The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they... →

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We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of... →

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The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor... →

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Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.

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Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now... →

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