USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -From 1770 to 1782 he founded eight more Californian missions: Carmel, his headquarters, at Monterey, in 1770; San Antonio and San Gabriel (near Los Angeles), 1771; San Luis Obispo, 1772; San Francisco (Mission Dolores) and San Juan Capistrano, 1776; Santa Clara, 1777; and San Buenaventura, 1782.

Detailed explanation-2: -Serra founded nine of Spanish California’s 21 missions: closed communities for Native Americans who agreed to convert to Catholicism, in which they practiced European-style agriculture and Catholic-style morality.

Detailed explanation-3: -Founded by Father Serra in 1770 on Pentecost Sunday, this m ission was considered to be his favorite, and both he and Father Lasuen are buried here. It served as the ecclesiastical capital of California and also as Father Serra’s headquarters for administrative duties as presidente of the missions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Spanish Franciscan priest, explorer and colonist of California, Saint Junípero Serra is known as the “Apostle of California” and “The Founding Father of the California Missions”.

Detailed explanation-5: -Junípero Serra and Fr. Fermín Francisco de Lasuén are rightly credited as the main mission founders, several other missionaries were involved in establishing missions in California.