Tau PublishingJunípero Serra: The Story
Always Go Forward and Never Turn Back
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- ISBN, perfect bound
- 978-1-61956-286-8
- ISBN, EPUB ebook
- 978-1-61956-820-4
- ISBN, PDF ebook
- 978-1-61956-821-1
- Pages
- 158
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Edition
- Perfect bound first edition, February 2015
- Language
- English
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About this book
“…surely they would encourage me to go forward and never to turn back.” — St. Junípero Serra, writing of his parents
This biography follows Junípero Serra from his boyhood on the island of Majorca and his years as a Franciscan teacher and preacher, to the missions of the Sierra Gorda and Mexico City, and north to found the missions of Upper California.
Barnabas Hughes, OFM, tells the story from two viewpoints often left in the background: Serra’s health, and his reasons for the evangelization of California. All the major events of Serra’s life are here, with many smaller ones, his accomplishments and his frustrations, closing with a portrait of what kind of person Serra was.
With maps and appendices on the people involved, common missionary practices and authority in New Spain.
Inside
- Introduction and Preface: an incident in the life of Padre Serra
- Seventeen chapters, from “The Island, the Family, the Friars” to “What Kind of Person Was Serra?”
- Maps of Majorca and New Spain
- Four appendices and bibliography
