Saint Junípero Serra: A Servant of Christ the King

Saint Junípero Serra: A Servant of Christ the KingThis biography presents a thorough and historically grounded account of Fray Junpero Serra, the Franciscan missionary best known for founding the California missions. Drawing on early sources, Fitch traces Serras life from his early formation in Majorca through his missionary work in New Spain and the Sierra Gorda, up to his role in establishing the Churchs presence along the Pacific coast. Fitch avoids romantic embellishment, offering instead a plain

He exposes the revolutionary doctrine of popular sovereignty as a dangerous error and a heresy that undermines divine order and social stability

and tender personal insight

and the Elizabethan martyrs

and a life

her "little way" of love and surrender—but beneath that simplicity was a soul that burned for Almighty God

For the first time since its original release in 1892

not directly by the people

a religious order founding a university—each story functions like a piece of a larger proof

but instead allows each chapter—on art

He Is There

offers two works of Eucharistic and Marian devotion

Told from a fully Catholic point of view