Serra of California
Williams, Michael
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By MICHAEL WILLIAMS
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act of its legislature,
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ized Father Junipero Serra,
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state's true...
...which are symbolized in the picture described above...
...At his feet is a cup, or chalice, out of which a snake...
...teacher of civilization to barbarians...
...side of the work...
...Spain's conquest of California was due more to Father...
...Padre Serra's name and...
...connected with the French possessions of Louisiana...
...try busy in the East while Spain attended to its own...
...will of God) Junipero Serra saved the Spanish effort...
...be seen...
...that is indisputable...
...that nation...
...Spain, who first planned and directed the Spanish set...
...but I wish that, whoever...
...in California, in which national, state, civic and com...
...forces of aristocracy and democracy, under the clash...
...the union at the time of the Civil War...
...the Unitarian minister from New England who...
...the rotunda of the national legislature at Wash...
...The...
...There are Indian...
...study of the spiritual founder of the Garden state...
...which appears as the frontispiece of Fray Francisco...
...a chain of beads...
...do illustrate the predominant elements of the American...
...But would Galvez...
...as Professor Charles E. Chapman and Professor...
...nonentities so far as their relations with national his...
...the United States: the year when the Constitutional...
...Palou tells us how Serra would use the jagged stone...
...Each state...
...lief that he was too insignificant or that he lacked the...
...able amount of unfavorable criticism of, and opposition...
...Serra and Portola and Galvez and Palou and Bucareli...
...tions of men and money to the American cause were...
...ligious zeal more than to any other motive...
...495...
...all did not happen, that Great Britain or Russia would...
...the California conquest—for its diplomatic intrigues...
...cup, or chalice, commemorates an occasion when the...
...gland Unitarian preacher by California as its two...
...Although the Spanish government...
...book was published in the City of Mexico, at the press...
...By a...
...established on the Pacific coast would have presented...
...but Serra, according to Palou, "realized in...
...owing to the conviction of most Californians that Padre...
...In order to deal with them at all...
...by their association with the...
...Such questions, I think, will never definitely be set...
...fornia from 1769 to 1822 (after which year the Mexi...
...there was general agreement...
...and a skull...
...old Spanish mission build...
...and the greater part, of his romantic, active, danger...
...ious beliefs, but in the main deriving from the Protes...
...Fremont, the conqueror, or Marshall, the discoverer...
...it was the force and ability of Spain's Inspector Gen...
...state's true founders...
...Had Spain not done so, it is as certain as anything...
...Explorers, soldiers, sailors, missionaries...
...and directed the occupation and holding of California...
...ends (for his will and his purpose were absolutely...
...its sculptor has been chosen...
...is not so generally known, however, that the exploring...
...Serra's statue—at the time of this writing—has...
...of the Catholic Church and the Franciscan order in hon...
...prohibition apostles, anti-slavery agitators, law-makers...
...His waist is bound...
...system, was mainly (though not entirely) the well...
...character and achievement of the great Franciscan mis...
...gantly tied with ribbon, his court sword at his side...
...psychological and others spiritual factors enter into...
...as important as the written records of government...
...poems, and illustrated by...
...an enemy...
...John Adams, Burr, Franklin and the rest of the great...
...led, it onward again to success...
...and mystic striving to unite himself to God...
...prayer...
...Southwest and the West...
...beat his naked breast when he was preaching, even to...
...So too he...
...believed) an instrument of another and higher purpose...
...died too soon, of course, to guess at the position which...
...for the present, about what he himself would have...
...sought to divert some of this glory to others, in partic...
...dren...
...ward the expansion and developments of Spanish terri...
...are truly great in the high history of the American...
...was and all that he did was "motivated" by ideals...
...Spain...
...This agreement was not...
...ciscan friar who halted the retreat at San Diego is...
...they are stretch...
...men in their own little worlds, and these little worlds...
...High above his head he holds a...
...Against a sky full of stormy clouds illuminated by...
...fornia, as well as the greatest of missionaries of the...
...some Californians felt that he had been identified with...
...They are elected...
...two chief heroes, or heroines, to Washington, so that...
...The Church's tests...
...devoted to the things that to him, as to Serra, mat...
...other than that simply of a great Christian missionary...
...men and women will be assembled...
...The United States was to reap where Spain had sown...
...His inner...
...In a circle about him are men and women...
...pioneers and national builders of the United States...
...the history of their country know that Father Serra...
...truthfully suggests the dominant elements of Serra's...
...than the world's standards of heroic eminence...
...will ever canonize him as a...
...purely beneath her black headdress...
...and will be published later on by Longmans, Green and...
...acy in establishing the new nation of the western world...
...material science...
...been written about in so...
...the western frontier of the United States intact for...
...and women and children, stands Serra, the Franciscan...
...that had just been born when Serra died...
...carried on the work after Galvez went back to Spain...
...Palou was fully aware of the high position occupied...
...concerned...
...sins, and to excite others to penitence...
...In serving that purpose did he not also prevent...
...And nothing could be more American than the se...
...though with many strange gaps and omissions, do...
...All gaze upon the central figure...
...history of the United States would have been different...
...But Palou...
...Jesus Christ had given to the Apostles and of which...
...in Palou's book...
...was merely an instrument of the state, so far as the...
...sia or Great Britain, or that Serra played a leading...
...queror, but his smile is gentle...
...It was the...
...democratic...
...Spaniards came just in time to prevent the occupation...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 20
