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When the party reached San Diego on July 1, Serra stayed behind to start Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions [29] (including the nearby Visita de la Presentación, also founded under Serra's leadership). Junipero Serra moved to the area that is now Monterey in 1770, and founded Mission San Carlos Borroméo de ...
Serra was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis in September 2015, drawing national attention to Ventura's Father Serra statue. [37] In August 2017, amid the controversy over public display and vandalism of Serra statues, the Ventura County Star published an op-ed calling for the removal of such statues. The author, Rellis Smith, wrote: "To have ...
Located between the Santa Ana Freeway and the city's Chinatown district, the bronze sculpture of Junípero Serra, a replica of the one completed by Ettore Cadorin for the National Statuary Hall Collection in 1930, measures approximately 8' 9" × 2' 2" × 2' 4", and rests on a concrete base that measures approximately 5' 8" × 3' 8" × 3' 8". [1]
Junipero Serra Peak is the highest mountain in the Santa Lucia range of central California with a height of 1,785 metres (5,856 feet). [1] It is also the highest peak in Monterey County , and is located within the boundaries of Los Padres National Forest . [ 2 ]
The land for Junipero Serra Park was acquired by the county in 1956. [3] The effort was led by San Mateo County Parks Director Ralph Shaw and the site, initially known as North County Park, was dedicated on May 22, 1960. [1] A Master Plan for the park was published in 1981; [2] it identified four areas for development: De Anza (family picnic area)
The next day another memorial for Serra was torn down in Los Angeles at Father Serra Park by about five dozen indigenous activists. [2] [3] Other statues of Junípero Serra were involved as the protests expanded to include monuments of individuals associated with the controversy over the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas. [4]
Statue of Junípero Serra (Carmel-by-the-Sea, California), also known as the Serra shrine, by Jo Mora; Statue of Junípero Serra (Los Angeles), after Ettore Cadorin's statue for the U.S. Capitol; Statue of Junípero Serra (Monterey, California), by Peter Bisson; Statue of Junípero Serra (Sacramento, California), by Maurice Loriaux
A statue of Junípero Serra in Capitol Park, near the California State Capitol, in Sacramento, California, was installed from 1967 until 2020. [2] [3] The statue was put in storage after demonstrators toppled it during a racial justice protest. In August 2021, legislators passed a bill to replace the statue with a monument to local Indigenous ...