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Content Enable editor Use plain text Code entry Of the missions on the coast we have a picture drawn in 1655. Five of them were within the present Georgia. These were San Pedro on Cumberland Island; San Buenaventura on St. Simons Island; Santo Domingo at Talaje, on the mainland; San José on Sapelo Island; and Santa Catalina on St. Catherines Island. Beyond the Savannah, in South Carolina, there were San Felipe on Parris Island, and Chatuache, six leagues farther north. [Para.] Varied indeed were the labors of these pioneers of Georgia and South Carolina. At the missions there were churches and houses to build, fields to clear, and the monotonous round of spiritual offices to perform. There were children to instruct, daily masses to be sung, and special ceremonies to be performed on feast days; there were marriages to solemnize, babes to baptize, medical aid to administer to the sick, and last rites to perform for the dying and the dead. All these activities must be carefully written down as a matter of record.1 This, too, was faithfully done, for models of neatness are the old mission books. But these routine labors were only part of the missionary's toil. He must write long letters to his religious superiors or to the governor at San Agustin. He must report all disturbances among the Indians, or rumors of intruding Englishmen; for these missionaries were newsagents and diplomats on the frontier, as well as spiritual teachers. [Note: 1 Data concerning Father Ore's friars is given in Barcia, Ensayo Cronoldgico, 181-184.

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