Last week, the Contrad Prebys Foundation announced that it was donating $330,000 to aid in the restoration of the Junipero Serra Museum, home to the collection of the San Diego History Center. Given the controversy …
January 14, 2022
No room for the cross in the public square: over the past two years, numerous statues of St. Serra have been toppled from their pedestals in public places. Clockwise from upper left: San Gabriel, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Elsewhere, as in Ventura and even at the San Luis Obispo mission, the statue was simply removed and placed elsewhere. And of course, Junipero Serra High in Tierrasanta was recently renamed Canyon Hills High School.
Posted January 12, 2022
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Prebys donation aims to restore California pioneer “to his proper place.”