Junipero Serra's life-long friend, Father
Palou was chosen temporary President of the Missions, for within a year
he retired to the Franciscan College of San Fernando, where he gave most
of his time to writing, and to him we are indebted for a complete and
accurate biography of Junipero Serra. After Father Palou's resignation,
Father Francisco de Lasuen was appointed Father President of the
Missions. Father Lasuen was an arduous laborer and able priest of the
original heroic band of missionaries, and his first act was to establish
Mission Santa Barbara, where Junipero Serra had planted a Mission Cross
nearly four years previous. This was accomplished on December 4, 1787,
and of the twenty-one missions which were spoliated in later years,
Santa Barbara was the only one which tyrannical laws could never
dispossess of its lawful owners, hence to this day the Sons of Saint
Francis are there to guard the "altar light."
From Santa Barbara, Father Lasuen traveled north to Lompoc, and founded
Mission La Purisima Concepcion on December 8, 1787.
Mission de Nuestra Senora de in Soledad was founded in October of 1791.
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