The archbishop of San Francisco claimed Father Junipero Serra, the man famed for bringing Catholicism to California in the 1700s, is a "great hero" and "great defender" of Indigenous peoples and partly blamed the removal of Serra's monument in Golden Gate Park on the Devil.
Serra is considered by some to be a de facto slave owner who used the labor of Native individuals against their will to build the missions.
From SFGate
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