Born at Petra on the Spanish island of Mallorca on November 24, 1713, Junipero Serra entered the Franciscan Order at the age of sixteen and was ordained a priest in 1738. He received the doctorate in theology even before his ordination. For eleven years he taught philosophy in the Lullian University at Palma.
He won great fame as a pulpit orator. As a teacher he was equally successful. The pathway to fame and honor was clearly open to him, but he willingly turned his back on all this, and longed to be a missionary to the Indians of the New World. His superiors yielded to his request and allowed him to join a band of missionaries who were getting ready to go to Mexico.
Read more here from the Franciscan Book of Saints: http://franciscan-sfo.org/sts/S0701juni.htm
Almighty and everlasting God, we thank you for your servant Junípero Serra, whom you called to preach the Gospel to the people of Mexico and California: Raise up in this and every land evangelists and heralds of your kingdom, that your Church may proclaim the unsearchable riches of our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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