SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (CN) — On July 3, more than 3,000 tourists and locals danced and socialized outside the mission in San Luis Obispo as local band Moonshiner Collective belted out a setlist of feel-good, Americana rock tunes on the eve of the country’s 250th birthday.
Yet one familiar face that had stood next to Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa for decades was noticeably missing: In 2020, amid a backlash about the legacy of Spanish colonialism, the Catholic church removed the statue of the mission’s founder Junipero Serra, who had been named a saint just five years earlier.
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