Junípero Serra [SEP] religious order
Junípero Serra
Saint Junípero Serra y Ferrer, O.F.M., (; , ) (November 24, 1713August 28, 1784) was a Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar of the Franciscan Order who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain. Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988, in the Vatican City. Pope Francis canonised him on September
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Francis sent him to establish "places" for the friars in Gualdo Tadino and Viterbo. When St. Clare of Assisi was dying, Juniper consoled her. Juniper is buried at Ara Coeli Church at Rome. His feast day is celebrated on 29 January.
St. Junípero Serra (1713–1784), born "Miquel Josep Serra i Ferrer", took his religious name in honor of Brother Juniper when he was received into the Order.
The Legend of the Pig's Feet.
Several stories about Juniper in the