from junipero serra to jesus people 1
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From Junipero Serra to the Jesus People:
Southern Californiain the History of Christianity
February 15:
California as a Mission Field on the Far Side
of the World
Feb. 22: Mission San Luis Rey
and the Luiseño Indians
March 1: Progressive Protestants:
The Ethnic Mission at Home
Occidental College in 1910
March 8Progressive Protestants:
Christian Liberal Arts in Southern California
Aimee Semple McPherson , Angelus Temple and Life Pacific College , founded as
Evangelistic and Missionary Training Institute
March 15:
Southern California’s Leadership in Holiness and Pentecostal Movements
March 22:
Plain-FolkProtestantism:
Pasadena, Pepperdine,
andRonald Reagan
March 29:
The Jesus People
Movement In
Southern California
February 15:
California as a Mission Field
on the Far Side of the World
The Beginnings of Pax Hispanica: Cardinal Cisneros O.F.M. :Missionary, Crusader, Reformer, Scholar-Bureaucrat, University Founder, Grand Inquisitor, Twice Regent,
Patron of The Complutensian Polyglot Bible. Born poor, highly educated , responsible, ascetic, spiritual and trustworthy.
c.1570-c.1820Manila-(Monterey?)-Acapulco-Vera Cruz-Lisbon
Fray Andres de Urdaneta (1498-1568)-Augustinian Scholar-Sailor-Navigator
-Liberal Arts education, exciting career options in Spanish Empire-On the2nd Spanish Expedition into the Spice Islands in the 1520s.-1528 he and 24 are captured by Portuguese, Second expedition around the world.-Joins Augustinian Order. Later publishes Cabrillo’s account of California coast.-1559 Phillip II offers him command of expedition back into the Pacific. He turns down command
but will go along under Miguel Lopes de Legazpi.-In the Philippines, Legazpi appoints Urdaneta to find a return routeacross the Pacific.-Oct. 8, 1565, Urdaneta after 12,000 miles & 130 days, arrived in Acapulco. Only Urdaneta and two
others had the strength to cast the anchor. 14 died on the trip.-67 years old when he sailed back across the Pacific and discovered “Urdaneta’s Route”
Urdaneta’s Route
Gaspar de Zúñiga Acevedo y Fonseca, 5th Count of Monterrey (or Monterrei)
Viceroy of New Spain: (1595-1603)Viceroy of Peru: (1603-1604)
Educated by JesuitsGoal of good government for IndiansDuty of Exploration, Mission, and
Settlement northward
St Augustine , Florida 1565Manilla 1565
La Paz, Baja California 1596Monterrey 1596Monterey (idea) 1602Santa Fe 1608-10
Paraguay 1609Quebec 1608
Spanish Colonization c. 1590s-1610s
British “Benign Neglect”:
Roanoke 1585Jamestown 1607
San Bruno 1683-84Loreto 1697La Paz (Santa Cruz 1520-30s) 1596
Eusebio Kino (1645-1711)Juan María de Salvatierra
Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto (Founded 1697)
The Pious Fund of the Californias (Fondo Piadoso de las Californias) -Begun in 1697 to fund Jesuit Missions -1768 -1821 Spain administers fund for missions. -1836 Mexico delivers properties owned by the
fund to the Bishop of California -1842 Mexican Government takes back property
and income. -After American takeover and arbitration, Mexico
was to send money yearly to Californiadiocese.
1768 Franciscans take over Jesuit Mission in California Junípero Serra (1713-1784):[J. Wesley: 1703-1791; B. Franklin: 1706-1799]-”Junipero” was Francis’ “Jester for the Lord.” Serra was beloved leader of Los Condiscipulos (Francisco Palou, Juan Crespi, and two others) who were students and professors together at the University of Raymond Lull in Palma
Maria de Jesus de Agreda (1602-1665)
-The Blue Nun-Mom and sisters establish a Franciscan –based nunnery on family estate: “Congregation of the Immaculate Conception”-1620-1631 she tells of miraculous “bi-location” travelings in the American Southwest winning natives to Christ, helping in New Mexico and Arizona and preparing the way for future missions in California.
José de Gálvez Visitador of New Spain: 1764-1772
-"Occupy and fortify San Diego and Monterey for God and the King of Spain."
