For  years  the  saintly  Serra's  body  was  buried  under
a  pile  of  debris,  but  his  "sepulchre  has  become  glorious"
in  spite  of  all.  And  since  the  restoration  of  this  mission,
the  feast  of  Saint  Charles  Borromeo,  (its  Patron  Saint)
has  again  been  celebrated  here  every  November  the
twenty-fourth,  and  a  rehc  of  Saint  Charles  which  Father
Junipero  Serra  brought  from  Spain,  is  as  of  old  carried
in  procession.  While  this  is  of  course  a  CathoHc  festival,
reverent  visitors  of  various  creeds  attend  it.  The  mission
is  guarded  by  a  care-taker,  living  in  the  premises  of  what
remains  of  the  old  mission  orchard.
It  was  also  due  to  Father  Casanova,  that  Mrs.  Leland
Stanford  donated,  in  1890,  the  Serra  Monument*  which
crowns  a  slope  just  above  the  spot  where  this  wonderful
missionary  said  his  fiirst  Mass  in  Monterey.
We  cannot  give  sufficient  credit  to  Reverend  Ray-


*The  Very  Reverend  Angelo  Casanova  selected  the  writer  of  this  sketch
and  her  brother,  then  little  children  to  unveil  this  monument.
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mond  Mestres,  the  present  parish  priest  of  Monterey,
and  a  Spaniard  from  the  Province  of  Catalonia,  like
Junipero  Serra  and  many  of  the  early  missionaries.
