Congressional staffer Olivia Hnat has walked past the Capitol’s nine-foot bronze statue of Junipero Serra, the 18th-century ... His right hand lifts a cross, and the left supports a model ...

Four days after Pope Francis proclaimed Junipero Serra a saint, vandals defaced the grounds of Mission San Carlos in Carmel where the newly canonized Franciscan friar, and founding father of ...

Whatever the reviews of his work in California--and they run from “saintly” to “genocidal”--in his hometown of Petra on the Spanish island of Majorca, Junipero Serra is the local boy who ...

Vatican City, Sep 4, 2015 / 05:07 am Pope Francis on Wednesday kissed and blessed a cross that was buried with Father Junipero Serra, the early California missionary whom he will canonize during ...

The outcries began as soon as Pope Francis announced that, after 80 years of formal consideration, Father Junipero Serra, founder of the California missions, was to be made a saint. The outrage ...

“I wouldn’t say the announcement of the Holy Father to canonize Junipero Serra ... the sign of the cross,” Mendoza said. “I had an adversarial relationship with Serra which went unspoken ...

MONTEREY (BCN) A young girl found the decapitated head of a Junipero Serra statue during a low tide Saturday afternoon off the coast of Monterey, a Monterey police sergeant said. Officers ...

WASHINGTON — Celebrating his first Mass in the United States on Wednesday, Pope Francis used the lesson of the newly canonized 18th century saint Junipero Serra to exhort the church to be ...

The cross was erected in 1907 to honor Junipero Serra, according to The Press-Enterprise. Serra was an 18th century priest who founded missions across California, a system that forced Native ...

The statue depicted Junipero Serra, the 18th century Catholic priest who founded nine of the 21 historic missions in California. His missions include the one at St. Raphael Catholic Church on ...