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https://www.worldcatholicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Father_Kyle_Faller_leads_prayers_at_the_site_of_a_destroyed_statue_of_St_Junipero_Serra_on_Oct_13_2020_Credit__Valerie_Schmalz_Archdiocese_of_San_Francisco.jpg600400Denver Newsroom, Oct 14, 2020 / 03:33 pm (CNA).- Catholics in California rallied in a peaceful demonstration Tuesday evening at the former site of a statue of St. Junipero Serra, which a group of activists defaced and pulled down earlier this week. The riot at which the statue was destroyed took place Oct. 12 at Mission San Rafael Arcángel in San Rafael, CA, north of San Francisco Bay. Father Kyle Faller, parochial vicar at the mission, led a rosary and addressed the crowd of 75-100 people Oct. 13, many of whom held signs saying “Free the Mass,” in reference to the city’s COVID-19 restrictions on public worship, which San Francisco’s archbishop has called unjust. Faller also led a Litany of Reparation for the statue’s destruction, as well as the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is set to offer exorcism prayers at the statue’s former site Oct. 17. “Let this be a time for all of you to take courage and not be afraid, as our great Pope St. John Paul II..