Junipero Serra

Junipero Serra, O.F.M. (jina la kiraia lilikuwa Miquel Josep Serra i Ferrer; Petra, Majorca, Hispania, 24 Novemba 1713 - misheni ya San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, California, Hispania Mpya, leo nchini Marekani, 28 Agosti 1784) alikuwa mtawa, padri na mmisionari wa Kanisa Katoliki.

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Alitangazwa na Papa Yohane Paulo II kuwa mwenye heri tarehe 25 Septemba 1988, halafu na Papa Fransisko kuwa mtakatifu tarehe 23 Septemba 2015.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 28 AgostiMartyrologium Romanum au 1 Julai
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Maandishi yake
 Writings of Junípero Serra, ed. and trans. by Antonine Tibesar, 4 vols. (Washington, D.C,. 1955-66).

Tanbihi

Marejeo

; Cook did not discuss Serra but looked at the missions as a system

 Geiger, Maynard J.  The Life and Times of Fray Junipero Serra, OFM (2 vol 1959) 8 leading scholarly biography
 Geiger, Maynard. "Fray Junípero Serra: Organizer and Administrator of the Upper California Missions, 1769-1784," California Historical Society Quarterly (1963) 42#3 pp 195-220.

 Guest, Francis P.  "Junipero Serra and His Approach to the Indians," Southern California  Quarterly, (1985) 67#3 pp 223-261; favorable to Serra
 Hackel, Steven W.  "The Competing Legacies of Junípero Serra: Pioneer, saint, villain," Common-Place (2005) 5#2 
 Hackel, Steven W.  Junípero Serra: California's Founding Father (2013)
 Hackel, Steven W.  Children of Coyote, Missionaries of St. Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 (2005)

Luzbetak, Lewis J. "If Junipero Serra Were Alive: Missiological-Anthropological Theory Today," Americas,'' (1985) 42: 512-19, argues that Serra's intense commitment to saving the souls of the Indians would qualify him as an outstanding missionary by 20th century standards.

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The Humanity of Junípero Serra, an article by Thomas Davis at the Serra International official website
Firing Line with William F. Buckley: Saint or Sinner: Junipero Serra (March 17, 1989) Edward Castillo and the Rev. Noel Maholy talk with William F. Buckley after Serra's beatification.

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