Junípero Serra
Sign in to saveAlso known as Juniper Serra, Miguel José Serra Junipero, Junípero Serra y Ferrer, Miguel Jose Serra Junipero, Junipero Serra y Ferrer, Miquel Josep Serra i Ferrer, Father Serra
Christian missionary
Key facts
- Born
- Miguel José Serra Ferrer , ( 1713-11-24 ) November 24, 1713, Petra, Majorca , Spain
- Died
- August 28, 1784 (1784-08-28) (aged 70), Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo , Las Californias , New Spain , Spanish Empire
- Beatified
- September 25, 1988, Saint Peter's Square , Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- September 23, 2015, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Francis
- Major shrine
- Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo , Carmel-by-the-Sea, California , United States
- Feast
- August 28; July 1 in United States
- Attributes
- Franciscan habit, wearing a large crucifix , or holding a crucifix accompanied by a young Native American boy
- Patronage
- Vocations Hispanic Americans California
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Serra
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Crown of Aragon
- Place of death
- Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
- Occupation
- missionary
- Languages spoken
- Catalan
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Engraving of Junípero Serra (1787) (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- California
- Religious order
- Discalced franciscans
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- Commons category
- Junípero Serra
- canonization status
- saint
- date of birth
- 1713-11-24
- place of burial
- Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
- date of death
- 1784-08-28
- described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- feast day
- July 1
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- second family name in Spanish name
- Ferrer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Miguel José Serra Ferrer
- religious name
- junipero
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Encyclopedic overview
Junípero Serra Ferrer (/huːˈniːpəroʊ ˈsɛrə/; Spanish: [xuˈnipeɾo ˈsera]; November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784), popularly known simply as Junipero Serra, was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Order. He is credited with establishing the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He founded a mission in Baja California and established eight of the 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Spanish-occupied Alta California in the Province of Las Californias of New Spain.
Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 25 September 1988 in Vatican City. Amid denunciations from Native American tribes who accused Serra of presiding over a brutal colonial subjugation, Pope Francis canonized Serra on 23 September 2015 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., during his visit to the United States. Serra's missionary efforts earned him the title of "Apostle of California".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Junípero Serra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.