SF archbishop says Satan is behind defaced statues, calls Serra 'great defender' of Native peoples
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The controversial archbishop of San Francisco claimed Father Junipero Serra, the man famed for bringing Catholicism to California in the 1700s, is a "great hero" to Indigenous peoples and blamed the removal of Serra's monument in Golden Gate Park on the devil.
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone held an exorcism and conducted "acts of reparation" in Golden Gate Park Saturday at the site of the statue, which was taken down by protesters on June 19.