Gracias por haber hecho todo lo que hicistes padre Serra, algún dia volverás a estar donde te corresponde, en todos aquellos lugares de los que fuistes arrebatado injustamente, pero de los que se que nunca te has ido. Y cuando vuelvas, sera con mayor reconocimiento y agradecimiento que nunca. Gracias también a las personas que han elaborado tan maravilloso video con tan magnífico material. Un gran abrazo a todos desde España, de un admirador y entusiasta de la rica historia española.
Thank you for putting out substantial and well produced content. Your youtube channel is a model for evangelization. This is excellent for using in a class and group settings. Keep up the great work!
The above video for everyone living in North America is important to watch. The information in it should be included in a history class for grade school students in public schools too in order to protect the rights of indigenous families who became converts to Christianity too, most of whom are orthodox Christian converts, as result of all the caring work done by holy missionaries like St. Junipero Serra who behaved in stark contrast to the colonial empire slave drivers who failed to see the image of god among indigenous peoples too.
Junipero Serra was a man of peace in an age of violence. Like Francis of Assisi, he was one of the Truely great saints. I recall learning about him in school as a child.
@@carlstoncoralle I learned about Junipero Serra in Catholic school and found him very heroic our Catholic history books told of many brave and dedicated men like him. He was one man who upheld the rights of the Indians. My first Us history came from a Catholic perspective, as I grew older, I became more skeptical, but still admired men like Junipero Serra and Issac Joges, men of peace and courage.
@@clarezigner6028 I admire that you admire qualities like bravery, dedication, and peace. I am sorry for insulting you for misspelling truly, there are a few great thinkers who did not spell well; I realize it is not an indicator of your intelligence and that was immature on my part. I still don't believe Serra should be placed in the same category as Saint Francis of Assisi or Saint Theresa. He would have been locked up in prison, had he lived in 2020.
@@carlstoncoralle Thank you for your comments. Now: What my appreciation of History has taught me is that an individual must be evaluated according to the standards of the times in which she or he lived, otherwise you have something similar to a Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur,s Court. A person from 2020 would appear to be a raving lunitic if transported to Serra,s time. What amazes and inspires me is the realization that while we shall never be Perfect, we are infinantly Perfectible. We are flawed,but able to overcome those flaws as Shakespeare observes " what A piece of work is man..." This has inspired me since I first read Hamlet. Go read it for yourself, I think it will inspire you as well. In closing, when evaluating an historic figure, look to her or his times. Just imagine what people would think of Joan Of Arc if she were to appear in 2021 and duplicate her career.
I just learned of St. Junipero Serra today and searched for information about him. I'm so glad I was led to this documentary. Thank you for this wondeful production. I'll be sharing it with friends and my Parish.
Junipero serra named all the states or most of them like San Francisco, Los Cabos San Lucas, San Diego and Maria de todos Los Angeles ( Maria of all the angels) today Los Angeles CA. and more.JPS Named all states a mission of evangelization.. so yes I strongly agree he is the father founder...
University of California’s Bancroft Library, Mexico’s Archivo General de La Nación, and the Santa Barbara Mission Historical Archive for their dedication in preserving the documents, records and letters of the mission era, providing the critical proof and insight that was needed to complete this book. Finally, my heartfelt appreciation goes to Stanford University’s Cecil H. Green Library, as well as to the California Room of the San Jose State University Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library for its magnificent collection of books documenting California’s mission era.
Beautiful video. We will share in our afternoon of reflection this Saturday. St. Junipero Serra is the patron saint for our Secular Franciscan group! ❤️
If the Indians did not cooperate, the soldiers, at times, killed them. In one incident, more than two hundred women and children of the Orestimba tribe (living near what is now the town of Newman) were being taken to Mission San Juan Bautista. When, after passing the summit at the Orestimba Narrows, these women refused to go any farther, the Spanish commander ordered the women and children killed with sabers and their remains scattered.
There is no such record. Someone saying that someone told them that is not a record. There are military and Mission records of every event and this one is not there.
Great Video. I know the video was focus on the missions in California, however very little is said about the missions he founded in Mexico. After all during the time of Father Serra California was still under the New Spain (now Mexico) "same country". A little disappointed on that part.
The Spaniards who went to the New World were initially only interested in obtaining wealth and then returning to Spain. But as the empire’s regional power grew, the Spanish crown wanted to protect its land and thwart Russian expansion into California..
Ok. This is what I am wondering. Since St. Junipero Serra is a saint, why isn't the Catholic church not protecting his statues? Why are so many Christian's just standing by, and allowing the destruction of his historical statues? Where is your courage to stand up for him?
While many California Indians were raised knowing the history of the missions from the Native perspective, we were unaware of the history of the Franciscan priests or the Spanish and Mexican governments.
The oral traditions of our tribal band, the Amah Mutsun, taught us stories of how certain Spaniards would appear when the Indians were first brought into the missions so they could get their pick of the young girls and boys for their perverted appetites, always with the tacit approval of the priests. Our elders told us that because the soldiers at the Monterey Presidio were raping so many of the Indian women and girls at Mission Monterey, the priests moved the compound to Carmel.
Native Americans in California lived in a brutal Stone Age when the Spanish came and taught them how to wear clothes and how to grow food. Laboratory analysis of Pre-Spanish era remains show they had malnutrition, a high pre-adult mortality rate, and tuberculosis, staph and strep infections, and syphilis. The males were naked from birth to death. They had their own slaves. There are eyewitness accounts from the period, published and reviewed.
Therefore, the Spanish (and, later, Mexican) government sought to use the Indians as a labor force to support their various goals, not the needs of the church. But in time it was the church which had the greatest impact on the lives of the Indians.
Those Worthy of Memorialization Let us remember those who have served our world with unflinching compassion, spiritual dignity, and ethical integrity; and did so with patience, perseverance, and resolve despite obstacles and persecutions so as to nurture truth, construct justice, prosper peace, and foment loving-kindness. Their nonviolent and loving actions, attitudes, and practices stand as pinnacles of character which rise above the mundane, myopic, and fear-based existence of those self-serving clods whose vision of reality rarely reaches beyond ‘what's in it for me and mine?’ Their words and example inspire in all persons of moral nobility an admiration that beckons us to follow in their paths and to forge new trails that nurture the hopes, nourish the dreams, and sustain the passions of we who seek to create the world that “should be” rather than content ourselves with the world “as it is.” Yes, let us remember and revere those who touched the sacred and who illuminated the divine with their radiance in looking and living beyond self, family, friends, and country; beyond gender identity, ethnicity, religious and political persuasion, and species, so as to bring into being a better world. But more importantly, may we be remembered as they are. Live so that those seven generations hence may speak truthfully of us: “They lived wonderfully and wildly, beyond the constraints of their civilizations, militaries, corporations, and empires, to create this universal and egalitarian world we now cherish. They opposed the oppressors, advocated for the victimized, and worked to establish a worldwide community of interdependent and harmonious life as diverse and beautiful as we are blessed with today. They endured personal suffering to promote plenty for all. They were renewed and healed by giving the best of themselves, day after day, for all of the years of their lives.” May our descendants be able to rightfully say about us, “Their motivations were not extinguished, for they cast their gaze on what could be, rather than what was. They refused to kill or injure others, to subordinate any, and even to exact any revenge on those who injured them and others. They established restorative justice that taught violators healthy and admirable alternative practices of equity. They protected, healed, and blessed the violated so that those who were wronged chose to forgive and restore relationship on their own accord. They sought to create a paradise for one and all, where all had enough, none had too little, and none had the conscience to possess far more than enough or more than their neighbors near and far.” Yes, it is these, and these alone, whom we are to memorialize with reverence. And it is these whom we, too, are to be. Let us so live that our memory of those we most respect become our own actions and practices remembered by those who live beyond us. - Bret S. Myers, 6/2/2023
A Cross of Thorns documents the truth of the Spanish colonial record in California with little known church and Spanish government archives and letters written by the founder of California's mission, Friar Junípero Serra (who advocated the whipping of Mission Indians as a standard policy), and published first-hand accounts..
That book has zero first-person accounts and is full of falsehoods and distortions. It was not published by an academic press and the author was not an academic. It is clearly false in nearly its entirety. It would have been impossible for the few Spaniards to have forced the majority population to do anything against their will. Only about ten percent of California Native Americans joined the Missions. It was the Mexican Government after 1821 that evicted the Native Americans and murdered them, not the Spanish. Don't cover up for the Mexican Government, which was corrupt then as now. By the way, the Native Americans lived under authoritarian village chiefs who ordered whippings of their working class and slave classes and order executions by stoning. They had no age of consent for girls of the lower classes. We have the complete records from every Mission, of all births, deaths and marriages. And St. Serra died in 1784. It was nearly 50 years later that Mexico carved up California.
A Cross of Thorns delves into the reality of mission life, the brutal punishments suffered by mission Indians, their captivity, and the forced labor they endured as neophytes. Letters residing in Californian and Mexican archives, accounts of travelers, and scholarly studies have provided the detailed accounts and analyses needed for this book. It is my hope that this work will put an end to a myth that has existed for far too long.
That author was anti-Christian, who presented edited records while hiding the true records, and also made lies up out of whole cloth. Read instead Junipéro Serra: California, Indians and the Transformation of a Missionary; Beebe, Rose Marie; Senkewicz, Robert M., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma; and The Academy of American Franciscan History, Oceanside, California, 2015
Indians did not cooperate, the soldiers, at times, killed them. In one incident, more than two hundred women and children of the Orestimba tribe (living near what is now the town of Newman) were being taken to Mission San Juan Bautista. When, after passing the summit at the Orestimba Narrows, these women refused to go any farther, the Spanish commander ordered the women and children killed with sabers and their remains scattered.
They don't respect the police, families, morality, truth...why wouldn't they cancel Sera? This all ends bad. Untended consequences yet to make their ugly appearances.
Father sera was no saint. He did nothing but cruel acts and was a selfish man. Yet you believe your whitewashed history because it makes you feel better knowing they were good people instead of bad people. They have every right to cancel and dislike him.
"Great advocate for the rights of Native American people" Really? That's why he had all kind of stuff to torture natives? Why would Native American people be treated as live stock/slaves/work force for the building and maintenance of all 21 missions in california? Why 60000 Indians died because of him if he was a "great advocate" of the rights of native Americans?
I used to like the missions but now that I know the truth that he was there when the Indians where being slaved and killed tortured. There was more Indians dying then there was being born no wonder every mission I went to I never felt peace I felt something wrong . When I go to other churches I do feel at peace. Not these missions .
History is written by the victors. Serra was a disturbed and violent man. Even by his own words he dominated, enslaved, and wiped out a people that built these missions. Those who believe a pious story about california mission history are living a fantasy. These were military spanish outposts foremost. Please stop and find something else to identify with.
What a wonderful man! All in Him resonated the Mission of Christ and Our Lady of Guadalupe, the réconciliation of cultures and peoples in one Christ Our Lord.
Junipero Serra pray for Canada first nations , Amen
Gracias por haber hecho todo lo que hicistes padre Serra, algún dia volverás a estar donde te corresponde, en todos aquellos lugares de los que fuistes arrebatado injustamente, pero de los que se que nunca te has ido. Y cuando vuelvas, sera con mayor reconocimiento y agradecimiento que nunca.
Gracias también a las personas que han elaborado tan maravilloso video con tan magnífico material.
Un gran abrazo a todos desde España, de un admirador y entusiasta de la rica historia española.
Thank you for putting out substantial and well produced content. Your youtube channel is a model for evangelization. This is excellent for using in a class and group settings. Keep up the great work!
The above video for everyone living in North America is important to watch. The information in it should be included in a history class for grade school students in public schools too in order to protect the rights of indigenous families who became converts to Christianity too, most of whom are orthodox Christian converts, as result of all the caring work done by holy missionaries like St. Junipero Serra who behaved in stark contrast to the colonial empire slave drivers who failed to see the image of god among indigenous peoples too.
Junipero Serra was a man of peace in an age of violence. Like Francis of Assisi, he was one of the Truely great saints. I recall learning about him in school as a child.
Get an education, learn how to spell. This guy was a freak.
@@carlstoncoralle I learned about Junipero Serra in Catholic school and found him very heroic our Catholic history books told of many brave and dedicated men like him. He was one man who upheld the rights of the Indians. My first Us history came from a Catholic perspective, as I grew older, I became more skeptical, but still admired men like Junipero Serra and Issac Joges, men of peace and courage.
By the way, I had an excellent Catholic education in the grades, highschool and at a Catholic University.
@@clarezigner6028 I admire that you admire qualities like bravery, dedication, and peace. I am sorry for insulting you for misspelling truly, there are a few great thinkers who did not spell well; I realize it is not an indicator of your intelligence and that was immature on my part. I still don't believe Serra should be placed in the same category as Saint Francis of Assisi or Saint Theresa. He would have been locked up in prison, had he lived in 2020.
@@carlstoncoralle Thank you for your comments. Now: What my appreciation of History has taught me is that an individual must be evaluated according to the standards of the times in which she or he lived, otherwise you have something similar to a Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur,s Court. A person from 2020 would appear to be a raving lunitic if transported to Serra,s time. What amazes and inspires me is the realization that while we shall never be Perfect, we are infinantly Perfectible. We are flawed,but able to overcome those flaws as Shakespeare observes " what A piece of work is man..." This has inspired me since I first read Hamlet. Go read it for yourself, I think it will inspire you as well. In closing, when evaluating an historic figure, look to her or his times. Just imagine what people would think of Joan Of Arc if she were to appear in 2021 and duplicate her career.
Thank you Saint Junipero Serra, for everything that you have done for us - I love you
I just learned of St. Junipero Serra today and searched for information about him. I'm so glad I was led to this documentary. Thank you for this wondeful production. I'll be sharing it with friends and my Parish.
Outstanding movie!
He deserves a film! Perhaps Jim Caviezel could play Saint Father Serra
I think that is a great idea. I'd love to see it.
Junipero serra named all the states or most of them like San Francisco, Los Cabos San Lucas, San Diego and Maria de todos Los Angeles ( Maria of all the angels) today Los Angeles CA. and more.JPS Named all states a mission of evangelization.. so yes I strongly agree he is the father founder...
Thank you
Thank you so much Carl Anderson! St. Junipero Serra, pray for us.
beautiful documentary
University of California’s Bancroft Library, Mexico’s Archivo General de La Nación, and the Santa Barbara Mission Historical Archive for their dedication in preserving the documents, records and letters of the mission era, providing the critical proof and insight that was needed to complete this book. Finally, my heartfelt appreciation goes to Stanford University’s Cecil H. Green Library, as well as to the California Room of the San Jose State University Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library for its magnificent collection of books documenting California’s mission era.
Beautiful video. We will share in our afternoon of reflection this Saturday. St. Junipero Serra is the patron saint for our Secular Franciscan group! ❤️
Amen
Thank You Ruben Mendoza for you input and the revelations of your own travels.
Saint Junipero Serra a truly great man , a Man of GOD , and an inspiration for all of us !!!!!
no he isnt
@@narutouzami926 says you.
@@narutouzami926 And who are you reclaim or judge a death man behind the cartoon profile you have??? xd
@@pavelm.gonzalez8608 how does an image define what someone says is wrong? You quite literally have the letter P as ur profile pic.
Not a great man....slaver!!
Amen!
If the Indians did not cooperate, the soldiers, at times, killed them. In one incident, more than two hundred women and children of the Orestimba tribe (living near what is now the town of Newman) were being taken to Mission San Juan Bautista. When, after passing the summit at the Orestimba Narrows, these women refused to go any farther, the Spanish commander ordered the women and children killed with sabers and their remains scattered.
There is no such record. Someone saying that someone told them that is not a record. There are military and Mission records of every event and this one is not there.
@@kiorenmoss4154you really can’t be that gullible
The Serrano People
Yesss thank you save the missions !!!!
Great Video. I know the video was focus on the missions in California, however very little is said about the missions he founded in Mexico. After all during the time of Father Serra California was still under the New Spain (now Mexico) "same country". A little disappointed on that part.
Could anyone please link to me the document where father Serra petitions the spanish government to grant a bill of rights to the indigenous peoples?
Young people, be educated, this man was a great Saint who care for all.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The Spaniards who went to the New World were initially only interested in obtaining wealth and then returning to Spain. But as the empire’s regional power grew, the Spanish crown wanted to protect its land and thwart Russian expansion into California..
Ok. This is what I am wondering. Since St. Junipero Serra is a saint, why isn't the Catholic church not protecting his statues? Why are so many Christian's just standing by, and allowing the destruction of his historical statues? Where is your courage to stand up for him?
Based
It reminds me wen a mob of people were against Jesus
While many California Indians were raised knowing the history of the missions from the Native perspective, we were unaware of the history of the Franciscan priests or the Spanish and Mexican governments.
Los españoles varios se quedaron en las Américas hoy en día hay millones de sus decediente tanto criollos y mestizos.
It’s a shame this video has to few views
lol
@@carlstoncoralle yes lol
The oral traditions of our tribal band, the Amah Mutsun, taught us stories of how certain Spaniards would appear when the Indians were first brought into the missions so they could get their pick of the young girls and boys for their perverted appetites, always with the tacit approval of the priests. Our elders told us that because the soldiers at the Monterey Presidio were raping so many of the Indian women and girls at Mission Monterey, the priests moved the compound to Carmel.
Just because someone makes something up doesn't qualify it as "oral tradition."
Native Americans suffered under harsh and brutal conditions.
Native Americans in California lived in a brutal Stone Age when the Spanish came and taught them how to wear clothes and how to grow food. Laboratory analysis of Pre-Spanish era remains show they had malnutrition, a high pre-adult mortality rate, and tuberculosis, staph and strep infections, and syphilis. The males were naked from birth to death. They had their own slaves. There are eyewitness accounts from the period, published and reviewed.
ok
Mallorca*
Therefore, the Spanish (and, later, Mexican) government sought to use the Indians as a labor force to support their various goals, not the needs of the church. But in time it was the church which had the greatest impact on the lives of the Indians.
New World as heathens whose faith was based on entities it considered demonic.
Those Worthy of Memorialization
Let us remember those who have served our world with unflinching compassion, spiritual dignity, and ethical integrity; and did so with patience, perseverance, and resolve despite obstacles and persecutions so as to nurture truth, construct justice, prosper peace, and foment loving-kindness.
Their nonviolent and loving actions, attitudes, and practices stand as pinnacles of character which rise above the mundane, myopic, and fear-based existence of those self-serving clods whose vision of reality rarely reaches beyond ‘what's in it for me and mine?’ Their words and example inspire in all persons of moral nobility an admiration that beckons us to follow in their paths and to forge new trails that nurture the hopes, nourish the dreams, and sustain the passions of we who seek to create the world that “should be” rather than content ourselves with the world “as it is.”
Yes, let us remember and revere those who touched the sacred and who illuminated the divine with their radiance in looking and living beyond self, family, friends, and country; beyond gender identity, ethnicity, religious and political persuasion, and species, so as to bring into being a better world.
But more importantly, may we be remembered as they are. Live so that those seven generations hence may speak truthfully of us: “They lived wonderfully and wildly, beyond the constraints of their civilizations, militaries, corporations, and empires, to create this universal and egalitarian world we now cherish. They opposed the oppressors, advocated for the victimized, and worked to establish a worldwide community of interdependent and harmonious life as diverse and beautiful as we are blessed with today. They endured personal suffering to promote plenty for all. They were renewed and healed by giving the best of themselves, day after day, for all of the years of their lives.”
May our descendants be able to rightfully say about us, “Their motivations were not extinguished, for they cast their gaze on what could be, rather than what was. They refused to kill or injure others, to subordinate any, and even to exact any revenge on those who injured them and others. They established restorative justice that taught violators healthy and admirable alternative practices of equity. They protected, healed, and blessed the violated so that those who were wronged chose to forgive and restore relationship on their own accord. They sought to create a paradise for one and all, where all had enough, none had too little, and none had the conscience to possess far more than enough or more than their neighbors near and far.”
Yes, it is these, and these alone, whom we are to memorialize with reverence. And it is these whom we, too, are to be. Let us so live that our memory of those we most respect become our own actions and practices remembered by those who live beyond us.
- Bret S. Myers, 6/2/2023
A Cross of Thorns documents the truth of the Spanish colonial record in California with little known church and Spanish government archives and letters written by the founder of California's mission, Friar Junípero Serra (who advocated the whipping of Mission Indians as a standard policy), and published first-hand accounts..
That book has zero first-person accounts and is full of falsehoods and distortions. It was not published by an academic press and the author was not an academic. It is clearly false in nearly its entirety. It would have been impossible for the few Spaniards to have forced the majority population to do anything against their will. Only about ten percent of California Native Americans joined the Missions. It was the Mexican Government after 1821 that evicted the Native Americans and murdered them, not the Spanish. Don't cover up for the Mexican Government, which was corrupt then as now. By the way, the Native Americans lived under authoritarian village chiefs who ordered whippings of their working class and slave classes and order executions by stoning. They had no age of consent for girls of the lower classes. We have the complete records from every Mission, of all births, deaths and marriages. And St. Serra died in 1784. It was nearly 50 years later that Mexico carved up California.
A Cross of Thorns delves into the reality of mission life, the brutal punishments suffered by mission Indians, their captivity, and the forced labor they endured as neophytes. Letters residing in Californian and Mexican archives, accounts of travelers, and scholarly studies have provided the detailed accounts and analyses needed for this book. It is my hope that this work will put an end to a myth that has existed for far too long.
That author was anti-Christian, who presented edited records while hiding the true records, and also made lies up out of whole cloth. Read instead Junipéro Serra: California, Indians and the Transformation of a Missionary; Beebe, Rose Marie; Senkewicz, Robert M., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma; and The Academy of American Franciscan History, Oceanside, California, 2015
I am taking a class in California History and was astonished to learn the approoch missions took to convert natives.
Indians did not cooperate, the soldiers, at times, killed them. In one incident, more than two hundred women and children of the Orestimba tribe (living near what is now the town of Newman) were being taken to Mission San Juan Bautista. When, after passing the summit at the Orestimba Narrows, these women refused to go any farther, the Spanish commander ordered the women and children killed with sabers and their remains scattered.
can u list ur sources I want to read them too
He has blood in his hands! Many natives were killed and tortured under his watch
Omg you are so ignorant. Do you even have self respect?
Take all those statues down!!
They don't respect the police, families, morality, truth...why wouldn't they cancel Sera? This all ends bad. Untended consequences yet to make their ugly appearances.
Father sera was no saint. He did nothing but cruel acts and was a selfish man. Yet you believe your whitewashed history because it makes you feel better knowing they were good people instead of bad people. They have every right to cancel and dislike him.
He was brutal to the INDIANS.
"Great advocate for the rights of Native American people"
Really? That's why he had all kind of stuff to torture natives?
Why would Native American people be treated as live stock/slaves/work force for the building and maintenance of all 21 missions in california?
Why 60000 Indians died because of him if he was a "great advocate" of the rights of native Americans?
this fellow had committed many crimes against red Indians in USA.
Torture from people with little or no knowledge at all.
I used to like the missions but now that I know the truth that he was there when the Indians where being slaved and killed tortured. There was more Indians dying then there was being born no wonder every mission I went to I never felt peace I felt something wrong . When I go to other churches I do feel at peace. Not these missions .
History is written by the victors. Serra was a disturbed and violent man. Even by his own words he dominated, enslaved, and wiped out a people that built these missions. Those who believe a pious story about california mission history are living a fantasy. These were military spanish outposts foremost. Please stop and find something else to identify with.
All lies!!!!!
He loved all the native people eight into their mass Graves. SHAME ON ALL CATHOLICS.
What a wonderful man! All in Him resonated the Mission of Christ and Our Lady of Guadalupe, the réconciliation of cultures and peoples in one Christ Our Lord.