Antonine Tibesar

Antonine Tibesar, O.F.M. (March 9, 1909 in Quincy, Illinois – March 4, 1992 in San Antonio, Texas)^[1] was a Franciscan friar, a scholar of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. He edited four volumes of the writings Junípero Serra, founder of the Franciscan missions in late eighteenth-century Alta California, canonized in 2015. Tibesar served as editor of the peer reviewed scholarly journal, The Americas.^[2]