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Book Jun  pero Serra Letters and Documents

Download or read book Jun pero Serra Letters and Documents written by Junípero Serra and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: Letters, reports and diary. (Diary in portfolio).

Book Jun  pero Serra letters and documents

Download or read book Jun pero Serra letters and documents written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jun  pero Serra letters and documents

Download or read book Jun pero Serra letters and documents written by Lesley Byrd Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photocopies of letters, reports and diary. (Diary in portfolio).

Book Jun  pero Serra

Download or read book Jun pero Serra written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion.

Book Writings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Saint Junípero Serra
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Writings written by Saint Junípero Serra and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Junipero Serra

Download or read book Junipero Serra written by Steven W. Hackel and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 freeing themselves from the burdens of colonial rule, Spaniards moved up the California coast to build frontier outposts of empire and church. At the head of this effort was Junípero Serra, an ambitious Franciscan who hoped to convert California Indians to Catholicism and turn them into European-style farmers. For his efforts, he has been beatified by the Catholic Church and widely celebrated as the man who laid the foundation for modern California. But his legacy is divisive. The missions Serra founded would devastate California's Native American population, and much more than his counterparts in colonial America, he remains a contentious and contested figure to this day. Steven W. Hackel's groundbreaking biography, Junípero Serra: California's Founding Father, is the first to remove Serra from the realm of polemic and place him within the currents of history. Born into a poor family on the Spanish island of Mallorca, Serra joined the Franciscan order and rose to prominence as a priest and professor through his feats of devotion and powers of intellect. But he could imagine no greater service to God than converting Indians, and in 1749 he set off for the new world. In Mexico, Serra first worked as a missionary to Indians and as an uncompromising agent of the Inquisition. He then became an itinerant preacher, gaining a reputation as a mesmerizing orator who could inspire, enthrall, and terrify his audiences at will. With a potent blend of Franciscan piety and worldly cunning, he outmaneuvered Spanish royal officials, rival religious orders, and avaricious settlers to establish himself as a peerless frontier administrator. In the culminating years of his life, he extended Spanish dominion north, founding and promoting missions in present-day San Diego, Los Angeles, Monterey, and San Francisco. But even Serra could not overcome the forces massing against him. California's military leaders rarely shared his zeal, Indians often opposed his efforts, and ultimately the missions proved to be cauldrons of disease and discontent. Serra, in his hope to save souls, unwittingly helped bring about the massive decline of California's indigenous population. On the three-hundredth anniversary of Junípero Serra's birth, Hackel's complex, authoritative biography tells the full story of a man whose life and legacies continue to be both celebrated and denounced. Based on exhaustive research and a vivid narrative, this is an essential portrait of America's least understood founder.

Book Writings of Jun  pero Serra

Download or read book Writings of Jun pero Serra written by Saint Junípero Serra and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Times of Fray Jun  pero Serra  O F M

Download or read book The Life and Times of Fray Jun pero Serra O F M written by Maynard J. Geiger and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Serra, from his birth in Mallorca, his early work in Mexico, and the establishing of the missions in California.

Book Lands of Promise and Despair

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  • Author : Rose Marie Beebe
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2015-08-28
  • ISBN : 0806153571
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book Lands of Promise and Despair written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.

Book Francisco Palou s Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Jun  pero Serra  Founder of the Franciscan Missions of California

Download or read book Francisco Palou s Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Father Jun pero Serra Founder of the Franciscan Missions of California written by Francisco Palóu and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Letter to Padre Junipero Serra

Download or read book A Letter to Padre Junipero Serra written by Maynard J. Geiger and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Cross of Thorns

Download or read book A Cross of Thorns written by Elias Castillo and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cross of Thorns reexamines a chapter of California history that has been largely forgotten -- the enslavement of California's Indian population by Spanish missionaries from 1769 to 1821. California's Spanish missions are one of the state's major tourist attractions, where visitors are told that peaceful cultural exchange occurred between Franciscan friars and California Indians.

Book Jun  pero Serra

Download or read book Jun pero Serra written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz bring this complex figure to life and illuminate the Spanish period of California and the American Southwest. In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion. Serra spent thirty-four years as a missionary to Indians in Mexico and California. He believed that paternalistic religious rule offered Indians a better life than their oppressive exploitation by colonial soldiers and settlers, which he deemed the only realistic alternative available to them at that time and place. Serra’s unswerving commitment to his vision embroiled him in frequent conflicts with California’s governors, soldiers, native peoples, and even his fellow missionaries. Yet because he prevailed often enough, he was able to place his unique stamp on the first years of California’s history. Beebe and Senkewicz interpret Junípero Serra neither as a saint nor as the personification of the Black Legend. They recount his life from his birth in a small farming village on Mallorca. They detail his experiences in central Mexico and Baja California, as well as the tumultuous fifteen years he spent as founder of the California missions. Serra’s Franciscan ideals are analyzed in their eighteenth-century context, which allows readers to understand more fully the differences and similarities between his world and ours. Combining history, culture, and linguistics, this new study conveys the power and nuance of Serra’s voice and, ultimately, his impact on history.

Book Writings of Jun  pero Serra

Download or read book Writings of Jun pero Serra written by Saint Junípero Serra and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jun  pero Serra Miscellany  1774

Download or read book Jun pero Serra Miscellany 1774 written by Junipero Serra and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: A handwritten copy of another letter from Serra, written in May 1774 addressed to and copied by Pedro Fages on June 4, 1774, with a postscript to Fages from Fernando Rivera y Moncada; a copy of a letter fragment from Serra; and photographs of two manuscript pages containing Serra's handwriting. In Spanish.

Book Writings of Jun  pero Serra

Download or read book Writings of Jun pero Serra written by Saint Junípero Serra and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: