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How Junipero Serra fought the death penalty for a California native

sargentodiaz - 8-7-2015 at 12:47 PM





Blessed Junipero Serra’s love for the natives of California extended even to those who killed one of his friends and fellow missionaries, the Archbishop of Los Angeles has said in a summary of an early argument against the death penalty for a native Californian.


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David K - 8-7-2015 at 01:48 PM

Thanks Dale.
Looks like Mission San Antonio de Padua, Alta California's 3rd mission and the 21st California Spanish mission (July 14, 1771).

LancairDriver - 8-7-2015 at 04:50 PM

So what happened to the culprits, were they spared or not?