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Juan Crespí (Catalan: Joan Crespí; 1 March 1721 – 1 January 1782) was a Franciscan missionary and explorer of Las Californias. Biography. A native of Majorca, Crespí entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen. He came to New Spain in 1749, and accompanied explorers Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra.
Father Juan Crespí (March 1, 1721–January 1, 1782) was a Spanish priest who explored what is now the state of California. He entered the Franciscan order at the age of seventeen. He came to America in 1749, and joined Francisco Palóu and Junípero Serra in exploring.
Juan Crespi (hwän krās´pē), 1721–82, Spanish explorer in the Southwest, a Franciscan. He came to America in 1749, and in 1767 he went to the peninsula of California in charge of Mission Purísima Concepción.
Juan Crespi, a Franciscan friar and colleague of missionary Junípero Serra’s, chronicled the expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769 and noted that a temblor lasting “as long as half an Ave Maria” toppled a soldier from his horse as they crossed the Santa…
Jun 13, 2021 · Crespí remembered it as where they had baptized La Cristianita, but didn’t note if he inquired about her fate. The girl, after all, mattered more to him dead than alive.
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Books. A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition Into California, 1769-1770. Juan Crespí. San Diego State University Press, 2001 - History - 848 pages. From...
Fray Juan Crespi's Diary Entries on Goleta. The source for the translation below is `A Description of Distant Roads, Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770' Juan Crespi, Edited and Translated by Alan K. Brown, San Diego State University Press, 2001.
