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Content Enable editor Use plain text Code entry For two years the Guale missions flourished. Then suddenly the thunderbolt of rebellion came out of a clear sky. Juan, a heady young chief, heir of the mico of Tolomato, organized a conspiracy. Followers were not hard to find, and in September, 1597, the blow fell.1 [Note: 1 The story of the Guale revolt is set forth at some length by Torquemada in his Monarquia Indiana, which was written shortly after the event. Barcia (Cardenas) retold the story a century and a quarter later in his Ensayo Cronologico. Accounts in English are given by Shea (The Catholic Church in the United States, I); Engelhardt (Franciscan Herald, vol. I), and Johnson, J. G. ("The Yamassee Revolt of 1597 and the Destruction of the Georgia Missions," Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. VII, pp. 44-53, March, 1923).] Father Corpa was slain and beheaded. From Tolomato the angry mob rushed to the other missions, gathering strength as it went. The tide first turned north and then it surged southward. Father Rodriguez at Tupique, Aunon and Badajoz at Santa Catalina, and Velascola at Asao, suffered a fate like that of Father Corpa. Father Davila at Ospo was wounded, seized, and carried into a captivity that was worse than death. But the Indians at San Pedro remained faithful, and there the bloody massacre spent its force.

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