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[ Official title of the Kings of Spain.]

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[ Blue and white are the symbolical colors of the Blessed Virgin Mary.]

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[ 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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[ Alberto de Cordoba, an excellent engineer, surveyed the Harbor of San Francisco in 1813, at the request of Governor BorĂ­ca.]

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[ A Catholic devotion in honor of Our Saviour's Passion.]

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[ This beautiful hymn is found in many ancient Spanish books of devotion.]

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[ This letter was written by Junipero Serra soon after his arrival at the College of San Fernando, Mexico, on a business trip he made there four years after his coming to California. The letter was written to his nephew, also a priest, in Petra, Spain.]