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Search - Our Centennial Memoir - San Francisco De Assis In Its Hundredth Year - Historical Reminiscences Of The Missions Of California

Our Centennial Memoir - San Francisco De Assis In Its Hundredth Year - Historical Reminiscences Of The Missions Of California
Author: Various

There are many reasons why a book like this, simple, unpretentious and purely historical in its character, shoilld be laicl before the citizens of San Francisco. They have but recently celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of their beautiful ancl interesting city, and it seems bnt right that some more enduring aid substantial re... more »cord than the reports, however full and complete, of newspapers, which are of their very nature but the things of a clay, should be made of an event of such importance. The object of the publisher, therefore, is to contribute his humble but sincere effort towarcls transmitting to posterity the recorcl of the found a , t i o o n of civilization on the shores of California. If his labor meets the approval of those who participatecl in it, he mill be amply satisfied and he mill not think his toil in vain. . To give a coilcise narrative of the past to depict in truthful colors the aims and objects of the devoteci men who raised the banner of Christianity and of civilization where one of thegreatest cities of the vorlcl is now established to vindicate the charactler of the zealous missionaries to whose earnestness in the cause of the Gospel Xan Francisco owes its origin-these are some of the motives which prompted the compilation of the volume now la, icl before the public. It may serve, also, to show to those who in the comilig century shall help to raise upon these foundatiolls the grand monuments of a peerless civilization, the self-sacrifice, the Christian fortitude, the heroic perseverance of those Catholic Friars who devoted life, energies, everything they possesseci to the service of their Divine Master, who knew no earthly ambition, who thought not of fame, who not even dreamt of handing down their names to the men who in c fter years would reap the fruits of their incessant toil. BXany efforts have been. made by the noble and disinterested members of the Pioneer Association, by lectures, pamphlets, etc., to preserve the records of Californias past but they, unhappily were not of an enduring character. Tlie docnments remain in the libraries of the few-too few - who feel an interest in the story of the vicissitucles of the Golden City of the Pacific, ancl that is all. To do something towards dissipating this repreheilsible and unpatriotic apathy, to coi struct some humble memorial of the past, is the most cherished desire of THE PUBLISHER. Missions of California are the landmarks TH civ E il ization. The struggles of the ealralnyd mmisasrikos n aorf ieist, s against the most appalling obstacles, to plant the Cross in a wild and unknown country, are full of interest to those who have profited by their unexampled heroism. The Jesuits, the first missionaries who succeeded in effecting a lodgment on the peninsula of California, after being expelled from Mexico in 1767, were succeeded by the Franciscans, at whose head Father Junipero Serra was placed as President of the Missions. Father Serra was a man of remarkable sagacity, energy and patience...

ISBN-13: 9781408638019
ISBN-10: 1408638010
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 212
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