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Word: junipero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon and painted themselves luridly before going out in the evening. When they disliked someone, they cut out his heart and sent the rest of him back to his family. This picture describes, in handsome color and costume, an early attempt to civilize the region, as made by Father Junipero Serra, the first missionary to the Southern Californians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Haring's award is one made annually by the Academy of American Franciscan History in memory of Fr. Junipero Serra, a missionary to southern California. Past recipients of the award are Sumner Wells, ex-United States Under-Secretary of State, and Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franciscan Historical Society Grants Award to Prof. Haring | 12/16/1953 | See Source »

Santa Clara was originally founded as a Franciscan mission, and Father Junipero Serra, California's great mission priest, dedicated its church himself in 1784. But in 1851, with California booming with gold rush, the mission was transferred to the Jesuits for a college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Santa Clara's 100th | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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