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Biography of Junipero Serra
A ZENIT DAILY DISPATCH
Biography of Junipero Serra
"The Apostle of California"
By Staff Reporter
United States of America, September 23, 2015 (ZENIT)
The US bishops' conference provides this biography of St.
Junípero Serra:
Born at Petra, Majorca, Spain, November 24, 1713, a son of Antonio Nadal Serra and Margarita Rosa Ferrer who spent their lives as farmers, Junípero Serra was baptized on the same day at St. Peter’s Church and was given the name Miguel José.
In Petra, Serra attended the primary school of the Franciscans.
At 15-years-old, he was taken by his parents to Palma to be placed in the charge of a cathedral canon, and he began to assist at classes in philosophy held in the Franciscan monastery of San Francisco.
Serra was admitted as a novice at the Convento de Jesús outside the walls of Palma on September 14, 1730, and made his profession on September 15, the following year.
He chose the name Junípero in memory of the brother compa