250 years later, Mexico remembers Father Serra, too

Some 1,200 miles south of San Juan Capistrano, Father Junipero Serra is one popular guy.
The Franciscan priest who cemented European culture in California, paving the way for everything that the trend-setting state has become today, spent months in the Mexican colonial outpost of Tepic, Nayarit, in 1767. It was a first step in the founding father of modern California’s journey to settle and evangelize a land then claimed by Spain as Alta California.
Serra is fondly remembered in Tepic