So Santa Clara University is discussing what to do about their statue of Saint Junipero Serra. The usual suspects want it down.

I have read a terrific and thoroughly researched description of what the California mission fathers did for the local natives, and how the missions went to smash after the Mexican War. The author was Helen Hunt Jackson, who went on to write A Century of Disgrace, a book detailing, treaty by treaty, folly by folly, cruelty by cruelty, the US government's bad treatment of the Indians in her time and the decades before. Mrs. Jackson went in person to visit the ruins of the missions, and to speak to the old people who remembered what life was like there. And we also have the letters and the chronicles of the fathers themselves, including accounts for herds, acres in grain, production of oil and wine, et cetera.

The fathers wrought an economic and social miracle. Those natives they reached in the yet untilled land of southwestern California were eating lizards when the fathers got there, having been brutalized by the stronger tribes nearby. In a stunningly short time, those natives were richer in material goods than anybody west of the Mississippi. They became herdsmen, tanners, and weavers. They became farmers and vintners. They became carpenters and masons, blacksmiths and coppersmiths. They became artists and musicians. Their sons learned to read. Some of them became priests. The missions were rich and successful; then came the war, and the takeover of mission lands by the US government.

Absolutely NOTHING that the secular state has done for the Indians comes within a hundred miles of what the fathers did. Absolutely nothing that Santa Clara University even pretends to do, with all the resources at their disposal, comes within a hundred miles of what a few priests did, with nothing but their faith, some flocks, and some seed.

1 History that too many people don't know. Thanks for this one, Tim -- it's great!

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