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Journey to the sun : Junipero Serra's dream and the founding of California

Title
Journey to the sun : Junipero Serra's dream and the founding of California / Gregory Orfalea.
Author
Orfalea, Gregory, 1949-
Publication
New York : Scribner, 2014.

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Description
viii, 465 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
The narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-442) and index.
Contents
Island Son -- The call -- A professor, wanting -- To the Spanish mainland -- The sea of darkness -- The long walk to Mexico City -- New world others -- The fat mountains -- Lost -- Baja -- Who they were, what they did, what they believed -- Mission San Diego de Alcala : the solace of unfortunates -- Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo : the disappearing oak of Monterey -- Mission San Antonio de Padua : a bell for a woman flying in blue -- Mission San Gabriel Arcangel : wonder and war in the city of angels -- Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa y Tilini : a prayer for bears -- Mission San Juan Capistrano : the burning swallows -- Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores) and Mission Santa Clara de Asis : microbes and the great Franciscan couple -- Mission San Buenaventura and the death of Serra -- Lasuen completes the mission -- Secularization, gold, and the destruction of the missions -- The Serra legend and the question of sainthood -- Epilogue: winter solstice at Mission Santa Barbara.
Call Number
IXG 14-3080
ISBN
  • 9781451642728 (hbk.)
  • 1451642725 (hbk.)
  • 9781451642735 (pbk.)
  • 1451642733 (pbk.)
LCCN
2013040181
OCLC
862962201
Author
Orfalea, Gregory, 1949-
Title
Journey to the sun : Junipero Serra's dream and the founding of California / Gregory Orfalea.
Publisher
New York : Scribner, 2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-442) and index.
Research Call Number
IXG 14-3080
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