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History’s first Argentine pope cleared him for sainthood earlier this year and on Sunday will canonize Brochero along with six other people in one of the final big Masses of his Holy Year of Mercy.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2016

During the Mass, he will canonize the Rev. Junípero Serra, a Spanish-born Franciscan friar known for starting nine Spanish missions in California in the 1700s, in the first canonization in the United States.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015

His Holiness will canonize Junípero Serra during a mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

From Time • Sep. 22, 2015

The friars also will host a delegation of their brethren from Majorca, Spain, the home of Junípero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan friar whom the pope will canonize in a Mass at the Basilica.

From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2015

If you remain moderately virtuous, we will canonize you.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various