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When Franciscan friars Father Crespi and Father Junipero Serra came to colonize California in the late 1760s, they looked upon this undertaking as a “sacred expedition” to bring native heathens into the Church.
Two hundred and fifty years after Cortez claimed Mexico and the vast lands north of it for Spain, Franciscan padres financed by the Spanish Crown began colonizing the remote
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