As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
Junipero Serra Quotes
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
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| Birth: | 24th November, 1713 |
| Death: | 28th August, 1784 |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Profession: | Priest, Professor |
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Junípero Serra known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded a mission in Baja California and the first nine of 21 Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, which at the time were in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain. He began in San Diego on July 16, 1769.
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