The 18th century missionary who played the lead role in the establishment of the Franciscan missions of California, Serra's canonization without the usually required second miracle was Francis' personal initiative in tribute to Saint Junipero's effectiveness in and dedication to evangelization as sketched out by Papa Bergoglio in Evangelii gaudium, the late 2013 text that is the governing manifesto of his pontificate.
Here again, the canonization of a Saint now being martyred in the USA post canonization:
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