The missions were primarily designed to bring the Catholic faith to the native peoples. Other aims were to integrate the neophytes into Spanish society, and to train them to take over ownership and management of the land...Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988, and canonized by Pope Francis on September 23, 2015...it was the first canonization ceremony to be held in the country." wikipedia
The Saint of Gulags
Oye Junipero!
Oye Junipero!
No me chingas Junipero!
The small Indian people
would have said
They had no Spanish
Junipero had no
understanding of
a world
without
suffering
Flogging his belly
with chains
he thought
of dulces
and
his mothers
hands
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