The reason for this 2nd posting should soon be obvious?

This is you Spanish Priest to be Canonized by the Pope

The reason for this 2nd posting should soon be obvious?

Some historians have doubted the claims of abuse because of the lack of documentation?

How many poor Indians at the time of Junipero Serra and military could read and/or write in Spanish at the beginning of 1700’s?

http://www.nahc.ca.gov/califindian.html

Please read this,

“Organized by the driven Franciscan administrator Junipero Serra and military authorities under Gaspar de Portola, they journeyed to San Diego in 1769 to establish the first of 21 coastal missions.

Despite romantic portraits of California missions they were essentially coercive religious, labor camps organized primarily to benefit the colonizers. The overall plan was to first militarily intimidate the local Indians with armed Spanish soldiers who always accompanied the Franciscans in their missionary efforts.

At the same time the newcomers introduced domestic stock animals that gobbled up native foods and undermined the free or “genitle” tribes efforts to remain economically independent.

A well established pattern of bribes, intimidation and the expected onslaught of European diseases insured experienced missionaries that eventually desperate parents of sick and dying children and many elders would prompt frightened Indian families to seek assistance from the newcomers who seemed to be immune to the horrible diseases that overwhelmed Indians.

The missions were authorized by the crown to “convert” the Indians in a ten-year period.

Thereafter they were suppose to surrender their control over the missions livestock, fields, orchards and building to the Indians.

But the padres never achieved this goal and the lands and wealth was stolen from the Indians.

Epidemic diseases proved to be the most significant factor in colonial efforts to overcome native resistance.

Soon after the arrival of Spanish colonists, new diseases appeared among the tribes in close proximity Spanish missions.”

http://www.nahc.ca.gov/califindian.html

The reason for this 2nd posting should now be obvious by now?

Time is short and we need to

Some historians have doubted the claims of abuse because of the lack of documentation, though it’s believed Serra wrote the following passage in 1780, according to a PBS biography:

“That spiritual fathers, the priests should be able to punish their sons, the Indians with blows appears to be as old as the conquest of (the Americas),” he wrote.

Serra died in 1784, but by the end of the missionary era in the 1830s, at least 60,000 of those Native Americans baptized had died of disease, according to the LA Times.

Hailed by historians as one of California’s founding fathers, Junipero Serra baptized thousands of Natives Americans, promoting Catholicism?

Was this by choice or by force?

 LCDM Universal History Archive/Getty Images Father Junipero Serra’s missions led to the demise of indigenous populations in California, critics say.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pope-francis-canonize-california-missionary-article-1.2082675#

Juniper Serra was born in 1713 in Majorca, Spain. After working as a missionary in Sierra Gorda and Mexico City, Serra was sent to California. Serra established his first mission, San Diego de Alcalá, in 1769. He built eight more missions over the next thirteen years. He is credited with helping the Spanish establish a presence in California. He died in 1784 at Mission San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo, in Carmel, California.

HISTORY

The Spanish entrada into Alta California was the last great expansions of Spain’s vastly over extended empire in North America. Massive Indian revolts among the Pueblo Indians of the Rio Grande in the late 17th century provided the Franciscan padres with an argument to establish missions relatively free from colonial settlers. Thus California and its Spanish Colonization would be different from earlier efforts to simultaneously introduce missionaries and colonists in their world conquest schemes. Organized by the driven Franciscan administrator Junipero Serra and military authorities under Gaspar de Portola, they journeyed to San Diego in 1769 to establish the first of 21 coastal missions.

Despite romantic portraits of California missions they were essentially coercive religious, labor camps organized primarily to benefit the colonizers. The overall plan was to first militarily intimidate the local Indians with armed Spanish soldiers who always accompanied the Franciscans in their missionary efforts. At the same time the newcomers introduced domestic stock animals that gobbled up native foods and undermined the free or “genitle” tribes efforts to remain economically independent. A well established pattern of bribes, intimidation and the expected onslaught of European diseases insured experienced missionaries that eventually desperate parents of sick and dying children and many elders would prompt frightened Indian families to seek assistance from the newcomers who seemed to be immune to the horrible diseases that overwhelmed Indians. The missions were authorized by the crown to “convert” the Indians in a ten-year period. Thereafter they were suppose to surrender their control over the missions livestock, fields, orchards and building to the Indians. But the padres never achieved this goal and the lands and wealth was stolen from the Indians.

Epidemic diseases proved to be the most significant factor in colonial efforts to overcome native resistance. Soon after the arrival of Spanish colonists, new diseases appeared among the tribes in close proximity Spanish missions.

http://www.nahc.ca.gov/califindian.html

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