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The Tolomato mission became one of the centers of the Guale chiefdom in Georgia. Although the Guale Indians had had regular contact with the Franciscans since 1573, the mission was not founded, according to Lanning, until 1595 by the Spanish friar Pedro Ruiz, but more recent scholarship indicates that Friar Pedro Corpa was the founder of the mission, having arrived at the village of Tolomato ...
Spanish missions in the present-day US state of Georgia Mission Name Location Province or Region Documentation of when missions were active is incomplete. Years listed in this column may not represent either the earliest or the latest year in which a mission was in use.}} References Espogache [a] [b] Guale: 1605–? [5] Guale [a] 31.62534, -81. ...
He is the only one of the Georgia Martyrs to be a lay brother. He came to Florida by following the same route as Pedro. He may have worked at a number of missions, ultimately ending at Santa Catalina. [8] He was martyred September 17, 1597. [5] Francisco de Veráscola Sáez de Castañiza was born and baptized on February 13, 1564, in Gordejuela ...
Around this time, Catholic missionaries became active in Georgia, setting up small Latin communities. A Latin Church diocese was established at Tbilisi in 1329, but this was allowed to lapse after the appointment of the fourteenth and last of its line of bishops in 1507, owing to few numbers of Catholics. Catholic missions residence in Mingrelia.
The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes for thousands of years. A modest Spanish presence was established in the late 16th century, mostly centered on Catholic missions. The Spanish had largely withdrawn from the ...
The mission Santa Catalina de Guale was founded in 1602 on St. Catherines Island, one of the Sea Islands of the present-day U.S. state of Georgia.It was probably associated with a Guale village known today as the archaeological site "Wamassee Head", on St. Catherines Island.
Catholic Historical Review 101.2 (2015) pp. 242–273. Hsia, R. Po-chia. "The Catholic Historical Review: One Hundred Years of Scholarship on Catholic Missions in the Early Modern World." Catholic Historical Review 101.2 (2015): 223–241. online, mentions over 100 articles and books, mostly on North America and Latin America.
Santa Isabel de Utinahica (ca. 1610 – ca. 1640) was a 17th-century Spanish mission believed by the Fernbank Museum of Natural History to be located in modern-day Telfair County, Georgia, near Jacksonville. It served the Utinahica tribe, who lived in the area.