Father serra biography for kids
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4:15youtubethe true story of st junipero serra, the 1st hispanic saint in the us.
Junipero Serra was the driving force behind the early establishments of Catholic missions in what is now California in the late 18th Century.
He was born on Nov.
24, 1713, in the village of Petra on Mallorca, an island owned by Spain. In his earliest years, he worked on his parents' farm. An intelligent child, he excelled at a local school run by the Franciscan Order, learning reading, writing, Latin, and mathematics.
He took a special liking to religious studies and religious songs, particularly Gregorian chant.
Father serra biography for kids
At 16, he gained entrance to a Franciscan school in the city of Palma. He soon took holy orders (replacing his birth name, Miguel, with Junipero, after a famous former Franciscan) and, by age 24, was a professor of theology.
He studied even harder, mastering cosmology and logic and metaphysics, and furthered that appointment in 1742 by gaining a doctoral degree in theology from the well-known Lullian University and then becoming a professor there the following year.
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