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Junípero Serra
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The statue in the U.S. Capitol, 2011
Artist Ettore Cadorin
Movement Bronze sculpture
Subject Junípero Serra
Location Los Angeles, California; Washington, D.C.

Junípero Serra, or Father Junipero Serra, is a bronze sculpture depicting the Roman Catholic Spanish priest and friar Junípero Serra by Ettore Cadorin.

One statue is installed in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It was donated by the U.S. state of California in 1931.

Another bronze statue was installed in Los Angeles in 1934.

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