Download Junipero Serra by Steven W. Hackel - mirror 1 --- mirror 2 --- mirror 3 -- --------------- br Synopsis: A portrait of the priest and colonialist who is one of the most important figures in California’s historybrIn the 1770s, just as Britain’s American subjects were freeing themselves from the burdens of colonial rule, Spaniards moved up the California coast to build frontier outposts of empire and church. At the head of this effort was Junípero Serra, an ambitious Franciscan who hoped to convert California Indians to Catholicism and turn them into European-style farmers.