Feast day: July 1
St. Junípero Serra
Franciscan who left a comfortable professorship in Mallorca to walk thousands of miles founding the California missions.
San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara — the map of California is largely a list of his missions.
“Always go forward, never turn back.”
— St. Junípero Serra
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