Synonyms for Serra
ˈsɛr ə; huˈni pəˌroʊser·ra

Princeton's WordNet

1. Serra, Junipero Serra, Miguel Jose Serranoun

   Spanish missionary who founded Franciscan missions in California (1713-1784)

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1. List of paraphrases for "serra":

   sierra, sera

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1. Olin Tezcatlipoca:

   Our protest is to tell the Pope that by canonizing Junipero Serra, they want to canonize colonialism, they want to canonize white supremacy and they want to canonize the genocide of our people. And that is an immoral act.

2. Valentin Lopez:

   We were raised not to say anything bad about the Catholic religion, but at the same time, we can't stay quiet about this. It's like the altar boy scandal. All the people who stayed quiet about the altar boy scandal, how do they feel now? it seems like the church is doing all it can to separate Serra from the atrocities and deaths and what happened to the Indians, but that does not work.

3. Pope Francis:

   Junipero Serra left his native land and its way of life, he was excited about blazing trails, going forth to meet many people, learning and valuing their particular customs and ways of life.

4. Andrew Galvan:

   Everybody ... asks, Andy, how can you support the guy? I have to be able to sleep at night. So I have answered that: I believe Junipero Serra was a very, very good man in a very, very bad situation. And the bad situation is what we call colonialism, junipero Serra is being proclaimed a saint because he lived the life of a saint.

5. Valentin Lopez:

   It seems like the church is doing all it can to separate Serra from the atrocities and deaths and what happened to the Indians, but that does not work.