Spanish and French Missionaries To The New World Part 3 - Protecting and Moving Forward

Into the darkness of the Spanish conquest of the New World came pinpricks of light in the form of missionary friars. This video takes a quick look at two of these friars: Bartolome de las Casas and Junipero Serra. De las Casas was named "Protector of the Indians," and he used his position of power to expose the atrocities being committed by the Spanish and to help and protect the Native Americans. Serra's personal motto was "keep moving forward," and so he did. Despite a wound in his leg that never healed properly, Serra walked over 6,000 miles to bring the Gospel of Christ to the Native Americans and to found missions along the coast of California.