Junípero Serra was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded nine Spanish missions in California. In 1782, Serra founded Mission San Buenaventura, his ninth and final mission, on a site that became downtown Ventura. Objections to the public display of Serra statuary cite the mistreatment of the Native American people during the mission era. Following Serra's canonization in 2015, "Serra" statues were vandalized at Carmel Mission (smeared with green paint, "Saint of Genocide" written on a headstone), Monterey's Lower Presidio Historic Park (decapitated), San Fernando Mission (hands painted red and word "murderer" scrawled), Mission Santa Barbara (decapitated and covered in red paint), and San Gabriel Mission (cut with electric saw and splashed with red paint).