Definition of Junipero Serra

1. Noun. Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784).

Exact synonyms: Miguel Jose Serra, Serra
Generic synonyms: Missionary, Missioner

Lexicographical Neighbors of Junipero Serra

Junes
Juneteenth
Jung
Jung's muscle
Jungermanniaceae
Jungermanniales
Jungfrau
Jungian
Jungian psychology
Jungians
Jungle Carbine
Jungling's disease
Junie
Junin virus
Junior Circuit
Junipero Serra (current term)
Juniperus
Juniperus bermudiana
Juniperus communis
Juniperus communis depressa
Juniperus flaccida
Juniperus horizontalis
Juniperus procera
Juniperus sabina
Juniperus silicicola
Juniperus virginiana
Junker
Junkers
Juno
Juno Moneta

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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