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The grandest monument to the Spanish Franciscan friar, missionary, and explorer Francisco Garcés is the Garces Memorial Traffic Circle in Bakersfield, California. There, at the intersection
Tertullian famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” In the spirit of that ancient African theologian, let us ask a similar question: “What has Rome to do with Pretoria?” What