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DESCRIPTION:Pope's US Visit:\nFather Junipero Serra was no "Saint" -  come hear Elias 
 Castillo, author of Cross of Thorns:The Enslavement of California's Indians 
 by the Spanish Missions \n\n$5 and up, benefit for Revolution Books\n\nOn 
 September 23rd,  Pope Francis will hold a mass in Washington DC to canonize 
 Father Junipero Serra, the founder of the California Mission system. The 
 Bay Area is dotted with statues and streets named after Serra. And every 
 year thousands of tourists visit the Missions which are preserved and 
 enshrined as idyllic places where Franciscan friars and Indians lived in an 
 environment of mutual respect. But this is a myth and the opposite is true. 
  Revolution Books will host an event with Elias Castillo, author of the 
 book Cross of Thorns, which documents the damning reality - that Serra, the 
 founder of nine Missions in California was no "saint" and that the Missions 
 were genocidal -- places where Native people were lured and then 
 incarcerated, forced to work, beaten, tortured and where over 60,000 
 died.\n\nWhat does it say about the Pope, the Catholic Church and this 
 whole system that it would make a saint of someone responsible for crimes 
 against humanity and genocide?\n\n"A Cross of Thorns" pulls back the veil 
 of lies, deceit, and cover-ups that has been perpetuated for nearly two 
 hundred years. --Valentin Lopez, chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of 
 the Costanoan/Ohlone Indians\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/06/18777200.php
SUMMARY:Pope's US Visit: Father Junipero Serra was no "Saint" - come hear Elias Castillo
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/06/18777200.php
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