Within still stand the elaborate altars brought a century ago from Mexico, before which Junipero Serra held mass during his last visit to San Francisco.

This was nearly two hundred years before Padre Junipero Serra led his band of zealots and soldiers up out of New Spain into Alta California.

In October, 1776, Padre Junipero Serra founded the Mission Dolores, the third of the chain of missions extending from San Diego.

Among the figures and busts are those of Junipero Serra, General Grant, Goethe, Schiller, Cervantes, General Pershing and President Garfield.

The University of Santa Clara, conducted by the Jesuits, is located on the site of one of the Missions established by the Franciscans under Junipero Serra, and its modern buildings incorporate the ancient structure.

Where once a few tiled adobes clustered around Mission Dolores, founded by Padre Junipero Serra, now spread homes flooding the level places and gradually climbing up toward the tops of the hills that are like watchtowers over the Golden Gate.

This Mission was founded by Father Junipero Serra in 1776, and its adobe walls remain in a remarkable state of preservation.

FIDELITY-PHILADELPHIA TRUST CO. Junipero Serra.

REPPLIER, AGNES. Junipero Serra, pioneer colonist of California.

FIDELITY-PHILADELPHIA TRUST CO. Junipero Serra.

REPPLIER, AGNES. Junipero Serra, pioneer colonist of California.

There is the tree beneath which Junipero Serra said his first mass in this part of the country.

" "And Junipero Serra's bones are there, and it was his favorite Mission," said the girl, unwillingly.

He was not a Las Casas, nor a Junipero Serra, but he had the deep seriousness of all disciples laden with the responsible wording of a gospel not their own.

He was thinking of his youthful dreams of heathen conquest, emulating the sacrifices and labors of Junipero Serra; a dream cut short by the orders of the archbishop, that sent his companion, Brother Diego, north on a mission to strange lands, and condemned him to the isolation of San Carmel.