{"id":118,"date":"2014-07-21T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2014\/07\/darien-and-the-spanish-missions.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:36:35","slug":"darien-and-the-spanish-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2014\/07\/darien-and-the-spanish-missions.html","title":{"rendered":"Darien and the Spanish Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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Last Saturday I celebrated Mass at Nativity of Our Lady Catholic Church in Darien, Georgia, the second oldest city of the state and site of the first British fort in present-day Georgia.<\/div>\n

Founded in 1736, Darien was built where British colonists from South Carolina had in 1721 built Fort King George to guard the mouth of the Altamaha River, encroaching into territory claimed by Spain. \u00a0The fort was abandoned in 1727 and only six years later James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, creating the buffer colony of Georgia.<\/p>\n

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Though the British built Fort King George in 1721, they were not the first Europeans to settle this bluff on the shores of the Altamaha. \u00a0A historical marker by the fort\u2019s cemetery marks the location of Santo Domingo de Talaje Mission, one of the Spanish missions built by Franciscan missionaries along Georgia\u2019s coast between 1568 and 1684 to evangelize the Guale nation.<\/p>\n

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Due to depopulation, mostly caused by the death of natives from European diseases, pirate raids and attacks by other tribes allied with the British, the Spanish mission system in Georgia lay in ruins by 1684. \u00a0The remaining missionaries along the Florida border retreated to Saint Augustine in 1706.<\/p>\n

The best remembered Spanish mission along Georgia\u2019s coast is the Santa Catalina de Guale Mission on Saint Catherine\u2019s Island due to the martyrdom of five Franciscan friars in 1597. \u00a0Fray Pedro de Corpa insisted that those baptized should be faithful to their spouses by living in a monogamous relationship. \u00a0The heir to the local chief, Juanillo, openly took a second wife. \u00a0When confronted, Juanillo gathered a group of men and murdered Fray Pedro and four other friars who lived in nearby missions.
\nIn 1984 Bishop Lessard of Savannah formally opened the beatification process for the Georgia Martyrs and the results of the investigation were presented to Rome in 2007. \u00a0How exciting would it be for these men to be officially declared martyrs and blessed when the Spanish-speaking Catholic population of Georgia is increasing rapidly and while a Franciscan, Bishop Hartmayer, is bishop of Savannah.<\/p>\n

While celebrating Mass at the beautiful parish in Darien, I kept thinking of the brave men who left everything behind to preach the Gospel in a distant land, a land where I was celebrating Mass and preaching just as they did.<\/p>\n

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