Researcher and archaeology professor Reuben Mendoza seeks to clear the record on Father Junipero Serra. Los Angeles, Calif., Mar 29, 2015 / 04:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).-
California missionary Father Junipero Serra’s canonization is “long
overdue,” says a university professor concerned that the priest’s
history has been politicized and misrepresented.
“When he died, many native peoples came to the mission for his burial. They openly wept. Others of his colleagues and even colonists, believed that he would be made a saint, because of the way he had lived his life, a self-effacing life of a martyr,” said archaeology professor Reuben Mendoza of California State University, Monterrey Bay.
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3776/History_Truth_and_Politics.aspx
“When he died, many native peoples came to the mission for his burial. They openly wept. Others of his colleagues and even colonists, believed that he would be made a saint, because of the way he had lived his life, a self-effacing life of a martyr,” said archaeology professor Reuben Mendoza of California State University, Monterrey Bay.
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3776/History_Truth_and_Politics.aspx