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California's Junipero Serra Elevated to Sainthood

Sep 24, 2015 at

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California officially has its own saint. In a ceremonial mass attended by 25,000 people on Wednesday, Pope Francis canonized the Franciscan friar, Junipero Serra, the architect of California's Mission system.

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