La vida de Junípero Serra

by Francisco Palóu

"Relacion historica de la vida y apostolicas tareas del venerable padre Fray Junípero Serra, y de las Misiones que Fundo en la California Septentrional... Escrita por... Fr. Francisco Palou, printed in Mexico in 1787, is the biography of the founder of the missions in Upper California. Written by a disciple and fellow missionary, it was published three years after Serra died and is the first work dealing with the history of Upper California"--Foreword.