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Serra   /sˈɛrə/   Listen
Serra

noun
1.
Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).  Synonyms: Junipero Serra, Miguel Jose Serra.





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"Serra" Quotes from Famous Books



... Professor William R. Dudley for the use of a photograph of a record of Father Serra. This was secured through the kindness of the ...
— The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches • David Starr Jordan
... and tallow, which, produced in enormous quantity, were almost the only, but a quite considerable, source of revenue to all the California Missions. Agust'n was a half-breed, or mestizo, the son of one of the Spanish soldiers who had come to Alta California with Serra and Portola. His mother was an Indian woman, to whom his father had been married by Father Serra himself. That was in 1776, the year of the establishment of the Mission, and Agust'n, the oldest son of the marriage, had risen before the age ...
— The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions • J. Smeaton Chase


Words linked to "Serra" :   Junipero Serra, Miguel Jose Serra, missioner, missionary


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