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Definition of Junipero Serra
1. Noun. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Junipero Serra
Literary usage of Junipero Serra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. California: Its History and Romance by John Steven McGroarty (1911)
"... THE GRAVE OF Junipero Serra During the years in which the Mission Church at
Carmel was in a state of decay and neglect, following secularization, ..."
2. Spanish Institutions of the Southwest by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1891)
"... the final success of the expedition and the subsequent prosperity of the early
missions are largely due to the courage and energy of Junipero Serra. ..."
3. Poems: And Poems of California and the West by Benjamin Franklin Field (1904)
"Junipero Serra Fair the breezes fanned Majorca On a day in early spring And through
... Junipero Serra—man of iron in days of olden 1 In glittering empyrean ..."
4. The Beginnings of San Francisco: From the Expedition of Anza, 1774, to the by Zoeth Skinner Eldredge (1912)
"... NOTE 19 Junipero Serra At Petra on the island of Mallorca there was born
November 24, 1713, Miguel Jose Serra, son of Antonio Serra and Margarita Ferrer ..."
5. The Story of California from the Earliest Days to the Present by Henry Kittredge Norton (1913)
"CHAPTER IV Junipero Serra —1713-1784 ACCORDING to Emerson, " an institution is
the lengthened shadow of one man." In the case of the missions, ..."
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