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July 1st is the feast of Saint Junípero Serra, “Apostle of California”: Mallorcan peasant, Franciscan friar, priest, lector of philosophy at age 17, theologian, ascetic, missionary to the Sierra Gorda, Inquisitorial Commissary, and founder of ten Spanish missions in California, where he died in 1784.
Contrary to popular conception, he was a strict but loving guide and shepherd to his flock. He personally walked the 2100 mile journey from his mission in modern Carmel-By-The-Sea to the Viceroy in Mexico City in protest of how the colonial Spanish soldiers were mistreating the natives and hindering the salvation of souls.
Sancte Iunipero Serra, Ora pro nobis
July 1st is the feast of Saint Junípero Serra, “Apostle of California”: Mallorcan peasant, Franciscan friar, priest, lector of philosophy at age 17, theologian, ascetic, missionary to the Sierra Gorda, Inquisitorial Commissary, and founder of ten Spanish missions in California, where he died in 1784.
Contrary to popular conception, he was a strict but loving guide and shepherd to his flock. He personally walked the 2100 mile journey from his mission in modern Carmel-By-The-Sea to the Viceroy in Mexico City in protest of how the colonial Spanish soldiers were mistreating the natives and hindering the salvation of souls.
Sancte Iunipero Serra, Ora pro nobis
July 11th is the feast of Equal-to-the-Apostles Saint Olga: Varangian noblewoman, Princess of Novgorod and Grand Princess of Kyiv (as consort of Igor the First and regent to their son Svyatoslav the Brave), legal reformer, and patron to widows and Kiev
A strong, loyal and intelligent woman, she systemically destroyed the Drevlians with fire and sword when they murdered her husband Igor. She remained faithful to her dead husband, refusing the hand of the Byzantine emperor but converting in the process. She aided in the building of the first churches in the land of the Rus, first at Kiev and her home of birth in Pskov. Though unable to convert her son, she stayed his hand from persecution and laid the work for the faith to come to Russia.
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A strong, loyal and intelligent woman, she systemically destroyed the Drevlians with fire and sword when they murdered her husband Igor. She remained faithful to her dead husband, refusing the hand of the Byzantine emperor but converting in the process. She aided in the building of the first churches in the land of the Rus, first at Kiev and her home of birth in Pskov. Though unable to convert her son, she stayed his hand from persecution and laid the work for the faith to come to Russia.
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