FTP, identify this Franciscan friar who founded a series of missions up and down California.
He successfully convinced Antonio Bucareli y Urzúa to fire Pedro Fages, a military commander who fought several wars against the Apache, and the governor Felipe de Neve tried to bring him under temporal authority by temporarily banning him from performing sacraments. The most famous of the men who traveled El Camino Real, he built the mission to which the swallows return annually at San Juan Capistrano as well as those at Carmel and Monterrey. FTP, identify this Franciscan friar who founded a series of missions up and down California.
He successfully convinced Antonio Bucareli y Urzúa to fire Pedro Fages, a military commander who fought several wars against the Apache, and the governor Felipe de Neve tried to bring him under temporal authority by temporarily banning him from performing sacraments.
Junípero {Serra}