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SF archbishop says Satan is behind defaced statues, calls Serra 'great defender' of Native peoples

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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe 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.Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, head of the archdiocese of San Francisco, held an exorcism and conducted "acts of reparation" in Golden Gate Park Saturday at the site of the statue, which was pulled down by protesters on June 19."This is the activity of the evil one who wants to bring down the church, who wants to bring down all Christian believers," Cordileone said in a . "So we offer that prayer and bless this ground with holy water so that God might purify it, sanctify it."He said the statue's removal was "disparaging of the memory of Serra, who was such a great hero, such a great defender of the Indigenous people of this land."This is not a characterization shared by most Indigenous peoples. Jonathan Cordero, chairperson of the Ramaytush Ohlone and California Native history expert, told the San Francisco Chronicle he believes . 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."Everywhere they put a mission the majority of Indians are gone," Ron Andrade, then-executive director of the Los Angeles City/County Native American Indian Commission, , "and Serra knew what they were doing: They were taking the land, taking the crops, he knew the soldiers were raping women, and he turned his head."READ ALSO:Cordileone further praised the mission system at the weekend ceremony, saying there is "ignorance of the real history.""I would ask our people to learn the history of Father Serra, the missions, the whole history of the church, so they can appreciate the great legacy the church has given us, given the world. So much truth, beauty and goodness," he said. "It’s a wonderful legacy that we should be proud of. There are those that want to make us feel ashamed of it."California's missions were centers of assimilation, often by force and violence. Native people were ordered to give up their culture, customs and language as part of the conversion process, which was sometimes demanded "." Once baptized, they were, by law, required to submit completely to the Franciscans who ran the missions. Physical brutality, shackles and imprisonment were commonplace. Indigenous people who escaped could be and were hunted down. Unsanitary, crowded conditions enabled disease to run rampant.Their life expectancy, once in the missions, .Katie Dowd is the SFGATE managing editor. Email her: katie.dowd@sfgate.com | Twitter: @katiedowd

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe 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.Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, head of the archdiocese of San Francisco, held an exorcism and conducted "acts of reparation" in Golden Gate Park Saturday at the site of the statue, which was pulled down by protesters on June 19."This is the activity of the evil one who wants to bring...

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SF archbishop says Satan is behind defaced statues, calls Serra 'great defender' of Native peoples

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