Hackel, Steven W.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Mallorca: Mallorca Petra Becoming Junípero Priest and professor — Central Mexico: The voyage so far The Sierra Gorda Popular missions and the Inquisition — California: A work so holy Securing Alta California Building a ladder of missions Twilight — Epilogue.
• 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:

• Serra, Junípero, 1713-1784.
• Missionaries — California — Biography.
• Franciscans — California — Biography.
• Missions, Spanish — California — History.
• California — History — To 1846.
• Serra, Junipero, 1713-1784. gnd

Requested by Lansing, M