Title: Junípero Serra
Description: Explores the life of the Spanish Franciscan missionary who traveled up the Pacific coast to convert the Native Americans to Catholicism and turn them into European-style farmers and explains why he is commonly credited as the father of modern California.
Subjects: Franciscans, Missionaries, Spanish Missions, Biography, History, Fathers of the church, biography
Places: California
People: Junípero Serra Saint (1713-1784)
Time periods: To 1846