The towering statue of St. Junipero Serra had stood at the foot of a staircase leading into the Old Mission Santa Barbara for years. This week, however, workers were forced to remove the statue of the ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A statue of Saint Junipero Serra must return to the Loyola Marymount University campus, an alumni group has said in a letter and petition to the president of the Los Angeles-area ...

St. Junípero Serra has been a figure of some controversy for a long time now, as the Spanish missions he founded are also subjects of controversy. On his feast day in 2020, that controversy has ...

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Los Angeles is scrubbing the name of Junipero Serra, a Roman Catholic saint and missionary, from a downtown Los Angeles park, more than a year after activists vandalized statues of the 19th century ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Activists topple and deface with red paint the statue of Father Junipero Serra (1713 - 1784) at Father Serra Park in El Pueblo de ...

Monterey – The head of the St. Junipero Serra statue in the Lower Presidio Historic Park in Monterey has been reattached to the rest of its form after being vandalized more than a year ago. City ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A California sculpture almost 3,000 miles away from home stood for nearly a century without much public controversy — until now.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Activists on Saturday toppled a statue of Junipero Serra, widely regarded as the founder of the California Missions, from its perch on Olvera Street in downtown Los ...