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Fray Junípero Serra and his Apostolate in Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Rafael Heliodoro Valle*
Affiliation:
Ambassador of Honduras, Washington, D. C.

Extract

Over the Sea of Odysseus and of Columbus with sunrise-gilded sails, a ship with a saint aboard voyaged toward America. He was an island saint, with the compass of his heart pointing north, his vision directed toward the America which on the planisphere was still depicted as surrounded by seamonsters and dotted with Indian cities where men lived in misery, naked in a Paradise wherein the wolf of Gubbio had taken refuge.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1950

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References

1 Carrillo, Pablo Herrera: Fray Junípero Serra, Civilizador de las Californias (Mexico, Ediciones Xochitl, 1943), 38.Google Scholar

2 Palóu, Francisco O.F.M.: Relación Histórica de la Vida y Apostólicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra, Y de las Misiones que undó en la California Septentrional, y Nuevos Establecimientos de Monterey (Edición de “España Misionera,” Madrid, 1944), 36.Google Scholar

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5 Palóu, op. cit., 44.

6 Ibid., 47.

7 Ibid., 48.

8 Ibid., 48.

9 Herrera Carrillo, op. cit., 63.

10 Palóu, op. cit., 49.

11 Herrera Carrillo, op. cit., 80; Piette, op. cit., I, 188, 200.

12 Herrera Carrillo, op. cit., 102. ‘

13 Palóu, op. cit., 79.