The Spirit Within Saint Junipero: Photographs by Craig Alan Huber and Essays by Robert M. Senkewicz - Hardcover

Robert M Senkewicz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0989209938 ISBN 13: 9780989209939

Publisher: Veritas Editions, LLC, 2015

Synopsis

The Spirit Within Saint Junipero approaches Saint Junípero from a unique perspective, the sense of place, by presenting close and detailed views of the places that formed Junípero Serra, the places where he worked as a professor, a priest, and a missionary, and the places whose foundation was animated by his vision. By reflecting upon these places, the reader will be in able to approach this man in a fresh way.

Craig Alan Huber first began photographing the California Missions in 2008, and as he learned more of the Franciscans and contributions of Fray Serra in particular, he decided to make sojourns to both Mallorca and Mexico as well, to photograph the important places Serra played a pivotal role in. During his dedicated pilgrimages to these spiritual sites, he sought and often felt a life force flowing through them. This unseen energy has a Spirit. It is this Spirit Within he reveals through his work.

The images presented in this book are from Mr. Huber's pilgrimages to thirty-seven sites where Serra had an impact. Twenty-three sites are in Alta California, where Junípero directly founded the first nine Missions and set the stage for the remainder. Seven locations are in Mexico, where he established five Missions in the remote Sierra Gorda mountains, and played significant roles in two Franciscan colegios San Fernando in Mexico City, and Santa Cruz in Queretaro. Finally, there are seven locations on the island of Mallorca where Josep Miguel Serra was born and eventually became a Franciscan just shy of his eighteenth birthday.

For the entire book, photographer Craig Alan Huber was faithful to what some term today as 'old school' photography, working with a large format film view camera, the same style used by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and other iconic photographers. Seven years since its inception, he is ready to present this work in comprehensive form.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Together they have authored and edited numerous books, including The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California; Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535 1846; Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815 1848; and To Toil in That Vineyard of the Lord: Contemporary Scholarship on Junipero Serra.

About this edition

• Publisher: Veritas Editions, LLC
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0989209938
• ISBN 13: 9780989209939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128