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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 ...
Statues of the Spanish missionary Junípero Serra were recently toppled in the U.S. cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento as part of a national movement for racial justice sparked by ...
A 30-foot (9.1 m) tall statue of Junípero Serra was installed in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, in the U.S. state of California. It had first been erected in 1907 and sculpted by Douglas Tilden. The memorial was toppled on June 19, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, as a Juneteenth commemoration. [1]
On September 27, 2015, in response to Serra's canonization, the San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission was vandalized. The statue of Serra was toppled and splattered with paint, and the cemetery, the mission doors, a fountain, and a crucifix were as well.
The statue of Father Junipero Serra disappeared from the California state capitol in 2020, but he still stands alongside Ronald Reagan in Washington.
It replaces a statue of Father Junípero Serra, the founder of California’s notorious mission system, long a symbol of Native pain and oppression. Protesters toppled Serra’s statue in 2020.
In 2015, immediately after his canonization, the statue of Saint Junípero Serra at California's Carmel Mission was defaced with paint, as were surrounding graves and a basilica; Carmel's Police Sergeant Luke Powell said that the vandalism is being investigated as a hate crime because the perpetrators targeted "specifically the headstones of ...
Statue of Junípero Serra San Luis Obispo: California Jun 22, 2020: Jun 22, 2020: Removed by local mission personnel Was displayed on grounds of the San Luis Obispo Mission [236] [237] Statue of Junípero Serra: Carmel: California Jun 23, 2020: Removed by city as a safeguarding measure There are several statues of Serra in Carmel.