Pope Francis has proclaimed the first Hispanic saint of the United States, Fray Junipero Serra, at a mass ceremony during which he said that the Majorcan Franciscan friar had sought to defend the dignity of the native people that he evangelised. He defended their dignity, “protecting them from many who had abused them,” the Pope said of the new saint, one of the “founding fathers” of the United States and the only Spaniard in Washington’s National Statuary Hall.
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Fray Junipero: the new Majorcan saint
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