Saint Statue Defaced Amid Confederate Monuments Debate

As the battle over Confederate monuments suggest, one person's saint is another person's sinner.

And over the weekend that controversy reached beyond the South to California, where a statue of a Catholic saint, Rev. Junipero Serra, was vandalized in Los Angeles.

Images appeared on social media showing the word “murder” smeared in white paint on a statue of the 18th-century Franciscan priest who led the Catholic Church's missionary efforts among Native Americans on the West Coast.

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