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Title: The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
Subjects: Catholic Church Catholic Church
Publisher: New York : J.G. Shea
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Port Royal, the Chesapeake, and TampaBay. Besides strengthening St. Augustine and San Matheo,he visited Port Royal in April, 1566, and erected a stockadefort, which he named San Felipe, and assigned the commandto Stephen de las Alas. Menendez, in his asiento with the Barcia, who followed the manuscript of Don Solis de Meras, mentionsthe mass and projected chapel, so that probably that priest accompaniedMenendez on his march. -The terrible slaughter of shipwrecked men by Menendez arousedgreat indignation in France, and appeals were made to the king to avengeit. Only by perverting historical truth, however, can it be made a soli-tary or unusual case. The French never gave quarter to the Spaniards,and only a few years before, Menendez had seen the burning ruins ofHavana strewn with the corpses of its butcliored inhabitants, and there isevery reason to believe that the cruisers from Caroline and Ribault putto death the Spaniards whom they captured. ■* Barcia, Ensayo Cronologico, p. 108.
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(^Nereid Ll, XcUuXisdlj DEATH OP FATHER PETER MARTINEZ, S.J. FROM TANNER. SOCIETAS MILITAN3, 1675. FIRST VICAR AT ST. AUGUSTINE. 141 king, Mai-cli 20, 1565, bound himself to bring out ten ortwelve religious of some order, men of exemplary life, andfour Jesuits, He was himself zealous, and alive to the ne-cessity of converting the Indians to Christianity, and at vari-ous points erected crosses, and left Spaniards, men of probity,who were daily at the foot of the cross, to recite a shortabridgment of Christian doctrine, to famiharize the nativeswith the devotions of Catholics. He earnestly appealed tothe Society of Jesus for missionaries to labor for their con-version. Of the first church at St. Augustine and the chapels at SanMatheo and San Felipe we have no distinct accounts ; but inthe mutinies and troubles incident to a new settlement, wefind the Yicar Lopez de Mendoza interceding for mutineersand saving their lives. He was an active and zealous priestand seems to have labored from

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