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A priest and a boy entered some time (a century) ago a hollow in the hills and passed into a sort of subterranean tunnel that led into a labyrinth of sealed and secret corridors of rock. They crawled through cracks that seemed almost impassable, they crept through tunnels that might have been made for moles, they dropped into holes as hopeless as wells, they seemed to be bury...

Not a few writers have reached the remarkable conclusion, by what process of reasoning is not clear, that the California missions and the system that governed them had resulted in failure! It would be interesting to learn what such scribes might consider successful missionary work. As it is, their ...

Miguel José Serra, son of Antonio Serra and Margareit Ferrer, was born at Petra on the island of Mallorca, 24 November 1713, took the Franciscan habit at Palma 14 September 1730, and made his profession 15 September 1731, on which occasion he assumed the name Junipero. In early boyhood he served as...