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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 465 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
A portrait of the intrepid priest who established the eighteenth-century missions of the Catholic Church in California draws on extensive research and original discoveries while discussing Serra's passionate devotion to California's native populations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Traces the life of Father Junipero Serra from his childhood on the Spanish island of Majorca, his duties and travels as a missionary, to his death in 1784 and his legacy of the "Golden Chain" of missions in California.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
40 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Traces the life of the Spanish explorer and missionary who traveled to Mexico and California to teach the Indians about Christianity and who established nine missions along the California coast.
Author
Series
Monograph volume 5-6
Publisher
Academy of American Franciscan History
Pub. Date
1959
Physical Desc
2 v. : ill., ports., maps.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Published to coincide with the 300th anniversary of Junipero Serra's birth, this landmark biography of the founder of the first Catholic missions in California presents an authoritative study of a man whose life continues to be celebrated and denounced.
Author
Series
Senate document volume 72nd Congress, no. 102
Publisher
United States Govt Print. Off
Pub. Date
1932
Physical Desc
61 p.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Description
Traces the life of the Spanish explorer and missionary who travelled to Mexico and California to teach the Indians about Christianity and who established nine missions along the California coast.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
504 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.
Description
"Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz bring this complex figure to life and illuminate the Spanish period of California and the American Southwest. In Junípero...
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