A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California's history In the 1770s, just as Britain's American subjects were

In 18th-century Spain, daring stories of missionaries spreading the Gospel in the New World ignited the imagination of a devout young boy. Miguel Serra's dream

In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations wit

The narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key

As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work