The History Of The Catholic Church In St. Augustine

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Florida. While Columbus was here, he was impressed by the Aboriaines, or the natives, and by the rich waters that supposedly were to perpetuate youth as well as vitality. (Now seen as a tourist site, The Fountain of Youth.) On March 27, 1512, Palm Sunday, he and the Spanish men named this land “Floridus” which means full of flowers. They erected a large cross and celebrated mass. The Christianizing and civilizing of the native people began immediately but, was never appreciated by the Indians and therefore was a difficult task. The Indians began fearing the Religion because of the treatment they received in return, which was being enslaved after being Catholicized. In response to these acts of bondage, Catholic missionaries pleaded to the Spanish government to outlaw the enslavery of Natives. The Bishop of Chiapa and Bartholomew De Casa were both important people involved in the struggle for the Indian's rights. They appealed their case well and the Spanish government ...

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Protestants from the Americas. On September 8, a Spanish priest named Mendoza gave the colony its lasting name, St. Augustine, and performed a commemoration mass for the day Menedez landed off the coast of Florida. The Spanish here in St. Augustine wanted to seriously keep the settlement Catholic and so they only let Catholics into the settlement and they killed and enslaved all the existing Protestant and Lutherans that were there as well as those who came to Florida to colonize. At the time the town was small and planned to be three squares. A parish Church and a hall of justice were also built. Once the basic city was constructed, Menendez then set out to build forts and ...

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