Journey to the sun : Junípero Serra's dream and the founding of California / Gregory Orfalea.
2014
F864.S44 O74 2014 (Mapit)
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Journey to the sun : Junípero Serra's dream and the founding of California / Gregory Orfalea.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781451642728 (hardback)
1451642725 (hardback)
9781451642735 (paperback)
1451642733 (paperback)
9781451642759 (ebook)
145164275X (ebook)
1451642725 (hardback)
9781451642735 (paperback)
1451642733 (paperback)
9781451642759 (ebook)
145164275X (ebook)
Published
New York : Scribner, [2014]
Language
English
Description
viii, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
F864.S44 O74 2014
Alternate Call Number
HIS000000 HIS036020 BIO023000
HIS000000 HIS036020 BIO023000
HIS000000 HIS036020 BIO023000
Dewey Decimal Classification
979.4/01
Summary
"The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest. The names of these missions ring through the history of California--San Diego, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara, and San Francisco--and served as the epicenters of the arrival of Western civilization, where millions more would follow, creating the California we know today. Combining biography, European history, knowledge of Catholic doctrine, and anthropology, Journey to the Sun provides fresh perspective on America's creation story. Orfalea's poetic and incisive recounting of Serra's life shows how one man changed the future of California and in so doing affected the future of our nation"-- Provided by publisher.
"The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest. The names of these missions ring through the history of California--San Diego, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara, and San Francisco--and served as the epicenters of the arrival of Western civilization, where millions more would follow, creating the California we know today. Combining biography, European history, knowledge of Catholic doctrine, and anthropology, Journey to the Sun provides fresh perspective on America's creation story. Orfalea's poetic and incisive recounting of Serra's life shows how one man changed the future of California and in so doing affected the future of our nation.
"The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junipero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the American West. In the year 1749, at the age of thirty-six, Junipero Serra left his position as a highly regarded priest in Spain for the turbulent and dangerous New World, knowing he would never return. The Spanish Crown and the Catholic Church both sought expansion in Mexico--the former in search of gold, the latter seeking souls--as well as entry into the mysterious land to the north called "California." By his death at age seventy-one, Serra had traveled more than 14,000 miles on land and sea through the New World--much of that distance on a chronically infected and painful foot--baptized and confirmed 6,000 Indians, and founded nine of California's twenty-one missions, with his followers establishing the rest. The names of these missions ring through the history of California--San Diego, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Clara, and San Francisco--and served as the epicenters of the arrival of Western civilization, where millions more would follow, creating the California we know today. Combining biography, European history, knowledge of Catholic doctrine, and anthropology, Journey to the Sun provides fresh perspective on America's creation story. Orfalea's poetic and incisive recounting of Serra's life shows how one man changed the future of California and in so doing affected the future of our nation.
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Table of Contents
Serra before California. Island son
The call
A professor, wanting
To the Spanish mainland
The sea of darkness
The long walk to Mexico City
New world others
The fat mountains
Lost
Baja
California before Serra. Who they were, what they did, what they believed
The first nine California missions. Mission San Diego de Alcalá : the solace of unfortunates
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo : the disappearing oak of Monterey
Mission San Antonio de Padua : a bell for a woman flying in blue
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel : wonder and war in the City of Angels
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa y Tilini : a prayer for bears
Mission San Juan Capistrano : the burning swallows
Mission San Francisco de Asís (Dolores) and Mission Santa Clara de Asís : microbes and the great Franciscan couple
Mission San Buenaventura and the death of Serra
In the shadow of Serra. Lasuén completes the mission
Secularization, gold, and the destruction of the missions
The Serra legend and the question of sainthood
Epilogue: winter solstice at Mission Santa Barbara.
The call
A professor, wanting
To the Spanish mainland
The sea of darkness
The long walk to Mexico City
New world others
The fat mountains
Lost
Baja
California before Serra. Who they were, what they did, what they believed
The first nine California missions. Mission San Diego de Alcalá : the solace of unfortunates
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo : the disappearing oak of Monterey
Mission San Antonio de Padua : a bell for a woman flying in blue
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel : wonder and war in the City of Angels
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa y Tilini : a prayer for bears
Mission San Juan Capistrano : the burning swallows
Mission San Francisco de Asís (Dolores) and Mission Santa Clara de Asís : microbes and the great Franciscan couple
Mission San Buenaventura and the death of Serra
In the shadow of Serra. Lasuén completes the mission
Secularization, gold, and the destruction of the missions
The Serra legend and the question of sainthood
Epilogue: winter solstice at Mission Santa Barbara.