Series Description:

They tell the story of the desperate mile
from Serra’s point of view, the sad stories of his painful
loneliness read like the crucifixion; others tell of his self-
absorbed, bloody mutilations and flagellations, of times
when he nearly fainted in his own blood.  Father Serra
lived his life for the church; his every breath was for God
and His word.  Father Serra’s life was one continuous
search  to  convert  these  Indians  into  Saints,  these

perverted, naked men and womenmust be turned into
God-fearing beings with a purpose in life, he wrote in a
different page.  He lived only for conversion.  But the sad
part of this was that the villagers only learned of his life
mission years after his death because Jaguar - by then
an adult returning home from his travels around the
world -  revealed  the  stories  in  an  all-night  reading
around the fire.  Many of the villagers cried that night at
the memory of the old man who so unsuccessfully tried
for years to reach them.