Junipero Serra needs just one more miracle

Reporting from Santa Barbara - In a basement at Old Mission Santa Barbara, a filing cabinet is thick with claims of miracles that didn’t make the grade.
A man falls off his horse and, thanks to Junipero Serra, he gets up unscathed. A woman visits Serra’s tomb in Carmel and something stirs her deeply, changing the course of her life. An alcoholic gives up drinking and credits Serra for seeing him through.
They all believed their experiences to be miraculous—but none was deemed the miracle needed to lift Serra into sainthood, a goal church officials announced 75 years ago today, the 225th anniversary of his death.








They should ask the Opus Dei for some advice. The stunt they performed, making Josemaria Escriva, that evil egotistic dude,saint in no time, was simply awesome.
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