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Quote: Originally posted by David K  | | Quote: Originally posted by Whale-ista | Assuming this is a serious question,
I'm guessing San Serra (like San Simeon) or San Junipero (like San Jose)
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Technically, any male saint, or "santo", could be called "Santo", and it would not be strictly wrong (although it would be very uncommon) to say
"Santo Pedro" or "Santo Juan". However, the custom for male saints is to abbreviate the title "Santo" to "San". The exception to this rule is when the
first syllable of the name is "To___" or "Do___". Under those circumstances, if one said "San Tomás", it would be unclear whether the man's name was
Tomás or just "Mas" -- because you could be saying "Santo Mas". In the same way, if you said "San Domingo", it would sound very much like "Santo
Mingo", and again confusion would result. As a result, when the name begins with To- or Do-, the full title "Santo" is used. Besides "Domingo" and
"Tomás", there are not many names that begin with the syllables in question, but there are a few, and the rule applies to them as well. One would thus
speak of "Santo Toribio de Mongrovejo" and not "San Toribio", or "Santo Donato de Arezzo", and not "San Donato".
[Edited on 9-24-2015 by Whale-ista] |
Thank you, that was all I was seeking. So before male names beginning with TO and DO is SANTO and the rest is SAN.
That helps explain Santo Domingo and San Diego quite well, both D names, both end in O (or even GO)! TO and DO... Got it!
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My Mexican wife confirms it should be San Junipero Serra.
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| Quote: Originally posted by sargentodiaz | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by Whale-ista | Assuming this is a serious question,
I'm guessing San Serra (like San Simeon) or San Junipero (like San Jose)
More Information:
Technically, any male saint, or "santo", could be called "Santo", and it would not be strictly wrong (although it would be very uncommon) to say
"Santo Pedro" or "Santo Juan". However, the custom for male saints is to abbreviate the title "Santo" to "San". The exception to this rule is when the
first syllable of the name is "To___" or "Do___". Under those circumstances, if one said "San Tomás", it would be unclear whether the man's name was
Tomás or just "Mas" -- because you could be saying "Santo Mas". In the same way, if you said "San Domingo", it would sound very much like "Santo
Mingo", and again confusion would result. As a result, when the name begins with To- or Do-, the full title "Santo" is used. Besides "Domingo" and
"Tomás", there are not many names that begin with the syllables in question, but there are a few, and the rule applies to them as well. One would thus
speak of "Santo Toribio de Mongrovejo" and not "San Toribio", or "Santo Donato de Arezzo", and not "San Donato".
[Edited on 9-24-2015 by Whale-ista] |
Thank you, that was all I was seeking. So before male names beginning with TO and DO is SANTO and the rest is SAN.
That helps explain Santo Domingo and San Diego quite well, both D names, both end in O (or even GO)! TO and DO... Got it!
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My Mexican wife confirms it should be San Junipero Serra. |
There will be no last name, as in all other Saints, I imagine?
San Junípero it is. Do I edit my next book or use the name he had when he traveled from Loreto to San Diego overland?
 
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by sargentodiaz | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by Whale-ista | Assuming this is a serious question,
I'm guessing San Serra (like San Simeon) or San Junipero (like San Jose)
More Information:
Technically, any male saint, or "santo", could be called "Santo", and it would not be strictly wrong (although it would be very uncommon) to say
"Santo Pedro" or "Santo Juan". However, the custom for male saints is to abbreviate the title "Santo" to "San". The exception to this rule is when the
first syllable of the name is "To___" or "Do___". Under those circumstances, if one said "San Tomás", it would be unclear whether the man's name was
Tomás or just "Mas" -- because you could be saying "Santo Mas". In the same way, if you said "San Domingo", it would sound very much like "Santo
Mingo", and again confusion would result. As a result, when the name begins with To- or Do-, the full title "Santo" is used. Besides "Domingo" and
"Tomás", there are not many names that begin with the syllables in question, but there are a few, and the rule applies to them as well. One would thus
speak of "Santo Toribio de Mongrovejo" and not "San Toribio", or "Santo Donato de Arezzo", and not "San Donato".
[Edited on 9-24-2015 by Whale-ista] |
Thank you, that was all I was seeking. So before male names beginning with TO and DO is SANTO and the rest is SAN.
That helps explain Santo Domingo and San Diego quite well, both D names, both end in O (or even GO)! TO and DO... Got it!
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My Mexican wife confirms it should be San Junipero Serra. |
There will be no last name, as in all other Saints, I imagine?
San Junípero it is. Do I edit my next book or use the name he had when he traveled from Loreto to San Diego overland?
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Since you asked,...
If you support church's revisionist history viewed through rose colored glasses, then call him saint. If you are willing to write about how baja
expansion effectively caused cultural genocide and missions were built on slave labor, the you will write with truthiness and use his real name,...
eh?
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Depends on the audience and intent of your book.
If it's "light reading" then update it without explanation or details.
If it is intended to be more detailed, scholarly and/or objectively educational, then update his title, and include notes in your references about the
title's circumstances, and include various opinions on the process.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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The new book will provide more details and historic data on only the missions founded on the peninsula. It will contain information that currently
requires one to have access to many books and dissertations for the bigger picture of who, what, when, where and why.
The current book (The Old Missions of Baja & Alta California) with Max Kurillo and Erline Tuttle shows the true number of missions, the actual
order they were founded, and other interesting points to explain that period of history in both Californias, Baja & Alta). The truth about the
first California mission and what was California when the missions were built are perhaps the special feature the current book conveys.
Most Baja mission history books or guidebooks with missions mentioned the past 20-30 years have simply repeated the same details from one or two
earlier authors, who sadly, have made some errors.
Look for some samples from my new book shared here on Nomad in the future as well as our Facebook Old Missions page: http://facebook.com/oldmissions
Thank you for your interest!
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I'm all for keeping things real.
As long as DK promotes politics and religion on this forum, I'll have something negative to say about both. |
I'd hit the like button on that one.
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Amazing how the atheists and Catholic haters rise up for a simple question.
From what I've seen on Catholic websites, San Junipero Serra is correct.
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How many on this forum know that the now San Junípero Serra founded five missions in Mexico in the Sierra Gorda of the state of Querétaro before he
came to California?
Serra missions in Mexico
When I visited them about 15 years ago, I had no idea about this history. It took two day to visit all of them because the missions are widely
dispersed and visiting them involves some backtracking. Only the Jalpan mission is located in a town, the other four are in rural areas. Very
worthwhile to to see the painted, sculptured facades, totally unlike the California missions. All have been maintained and restored.
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Thank you and welcome to Baja Nomad!
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| Quote: Originally posted by gsbotanico | How many on this forum know that the now San Junípero Serra founded five missions in Mexico in the Sierra Gorda of the state of Querétaro before he
came to California?
Serra missions in Mexico
When I visited them about 15 years ago, I had no idea about this history. It took two day to visit all of them because the missions are widely
dispersed and visiting them involves some backtracking. Only the Jalpan mission is located in a town, the other four are in rural areas. Very
worthwhile to to see the painted, sculptured facades, totally unlike the California missions. All have been maintained and restored.
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The Sierra Gorda missions are an example of a strange situation in Mexico's Independence. One of the major efforts was to secularize the missions -
turn them over to the natives of the area. It was somewhat successful in Mexico because the natives had been familiar with the advanced civilization
of the Mejicans - the real name for what to many call Aztecs.
They practiced agriculture and understood the importance of discipline and planning.
That sadly was not the case in the Californias and the missions pretty well disintegrated after 1822.
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