| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - For the humble Franciscan friars, who were to build and staff the missions, the charge was a sacred enterprise and an opportunity, in the words of its chief missionary, Junipero Serra, to bring a harvest of souls ... into the bosom of our Holy Mother, the Church.Over the next forty years the humble Franciscans and their allies transformed Alta California, establishing twenty-one missions, scores
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