You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.

This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute,

an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute, and joining me is Matthew Meeks,

who is our chief marketing officer and innovation officer here at the August Institute.

And we're going to be talking today is the feast of St. Honiparro, this great, great Franciscan saint, who was recently canonized by Pope Francis.

And he's in the news of late, unfortunately, because people have been wanting to tear down his statues in different places as part of some of the mob destruction that's going on in different cities and urban places where people just want to get rid of any statues and anybody.

And that's unfortunate because, you know, St. Hanipro-Sara is quite a remarkable man.

And I think there's a false understanding of people have shallow idea that here is this guy who

came from Europe and, you know, he kind of preached to the Indians in California. And, of course,

St. Hanipro-A-Sara is very, very important because he founded all the missions.

Nine missions, and then there was other later missions founded in California, but nine missions

that he established.

He established the first missions in California.

And they're beautiful missions, and really so much of the history of California, you can't

understand if you don't know about this incredible

saint, Saint-Hiniparra, and he named all these places like San Diego, so many other cities.

I mean, Carmel, Santa Clara. San Francisco. Yeah, San Francisco. I mean, just all of these different places.

And if you ever think about it, a lot of people haven't reflected on it,

but if you look at all the names of these places in California,

they're all Catholic names, right?

They're all Catholic names.

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