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Franciscans spent a century in FL
Source: The Debatable Land #557
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Such a frontier demanded more missionaries, and the place of the Jesuits was taken by the Franciscans. These "precursors" began a work in Georgia which lasted for a century— and was then forgotten.1 [Note 1 Most of the records of the work of the first Franciscans in the Georgia country are still in manuscript. Many of these are contained in the Archivo General de Indias. Barcia (Ensayo CronoUgico) gives valuable data. Torquemada, Monarquha Indiana (Madrid, 1723), Ch. XXX, gives a detailed account of the uprising of the Guale Indians, which occurred shortly before he wrote. This book was first printed in Seville in 1615. In modern times pioneer work of high character was done by John Gilmary Shea, in his Catholic Church in the United States, vol. I. Shea was followed closely by Rev. Father Zephyrin Engelhardt in a series of valuable articles published in the Franciscan Herald, vols. I-III (1913-1915).
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