What is the meaning of the Brothers Grimm Juniper Tree?
It is a type of tree. You might be thinking of the religious comedy strip(Brother Juniper) who w3as a Franciscan Friar- brother grade, not a priest in one of the Franciscan missions in California. Comic strip was a sort of ecclesiastical Gomer Pyle. I can recall one episode, a group of school children were touring a seismic obsevatory manned by the Jesuit order, and a kid asks Brother Juniper, was the earthquake really St>Gabriel”s Fault? Double entendre- did he blow the horn, or well, there is a San Gabriel Fault! The strip ran in religious papers such as the advocate and is believed to be extinct. Father Junipero Serra, on the other hand was a real exporer and conquistador type who founded most of the major cities in Calfornhia which explains their Religious names- including the City of the Angels- LA. Fr./ Serra and company planned and executed a chain network of mission stations stretching California from San Francisco to Los Angeles- that is South to North. naturally as he was a F
