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Like beads in a great rosary 700 miles long, from San Diego in the south to Sonoma in the north stand 21 missions which in the 18th Century Fray Junipero Serra and his followers built to God's glory in California. Two are in ruins, one has become a museum, the others are partially restored and used for religious services. The Jesuits had evangelized Lower California from the time they appeared in the New World, but by 1767 -six years before the Order was suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers...
Founded by Fra Junipero Serra in 1776 the Mission of San Juan Capistrano on California's coast about half way between Los Angeles and San Diego, was already well seasoned when Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Two Years Before the Mast) visited it last century, called it the loneliest and loveliest spot he had ever seen. Of the legends clustered about this historic shrine mellowest is the tale that for 160 years migrating swallows have arrived at the Mission each year on March 19 (St Joseph's Day), flown south again on Oct. 23 (St. John...
Thus a major U. S. playground was belatedly recognized as a major province of the Church. Southern California is historically dear to Rome. In 1769, Franciscan Father Junipero Serra with 75 Spanish soldiers and a gang of Mexican muleteers journeyed 900 mi. overland from Lower California to the Pacific, which they reached at the sandspit of San Diego. On Aug. 2, they forded a shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested...
...WALL-L. A. G. Strong-Knopf ($2.50). Story of an Irish childhood, English schooling, the War, by the author of The Garden. JUNIPERO SERRA - Agnes Repplier- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Essayist Repplier writes the life of one of California's friar-pioneers. THE SIXTH NEW YORKER ALBUM- Harper ($2.50). Gleanings for the curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice...
...third of a series of organ recitals in the Memorial Church by Arthur M. Phelps, choirmaster of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Boston, will be given Thursday evening, July 27, at 7.15 o'clock. Mrs. Louise Serra Hollister, violinist, will assist. The program, which will last for approximately one-half hour, follows: Psalm XIX--Marcello (Mr. Phelps), Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring--Bach (Mrs. Hollister), Toccata and Fugue in D Minor--Bach (Mr. Phelps), Un Bateau--Debussy (Mrs. Hollister), Suite Gothique Choral-Introduction, Minuet, Priere, Toccata.--Boellmann (Mr. Phelps...