Rev. John T. Goldt, Former Brunswick, Georgia Marist Father, narrates in the Ecclesiastical Review heroic deeds of pioneer missionaries…

Article in the Commonweal reveals that this state has history antedating any statebut Florida – Friars came in 1565 – 1,070 Indians confirmed near Savannah in 1606, year before Jamestown and fourteen years before Plymouth…

Atlanta Journal Magazine story tells of labors of Franciscan friars among Indians here scores of years before founding of Jamestown and Plymouth…

1,070 Catholic Indians confirmed in state year before first permanent English settlement…

Its historic story told by graphic record written by late Father Henry P. Clavreul, Spanish brought faith to Florida four hundred years ago…

Editorially commends McIntosh County's efforts to secure PWA funds for purpose in Georgia…

Dr. John Lanning of Duke University is author of volume. University of North Carolina Press publishes it – confirmation tour of Bishop in 1606 recorded in detail…

109 martyred on this continent, 65 in U.S., 5 in Georgia, five in Florida…

Dr. John Lanning of Duke University author of interesting book published by University of North Carolina Press…

Within recent weeks, the Freedom Train visited this section of the country, and while on tour through Georgia it was accompanied by the one-car Georgia Heritage exhibit, containing documents connected with the founding and early history of Georgia…

[Photos] Ruins of the Mission settlement on Pease Creek in McIntosh County, Georgia, six miles from Darien, known to the Spanish as the Tolomato Mission of the Franciscans where, in 1597, Father Pedro de Corpa was slain by a band of Yemassee Indianas headed by a young chieftan called Juanillo, who became murderously enraged when reproved by the missionary for his relapse into the practice of pagan polygamy…

Last month in these columns, The Bulletin told of the martyrdom in Georgia of five Franciscan friars who were among the intrepid Spanish missionaries who came to these shores to preach the Gospel of Christ to the Indians, not long after Christopher Columbus had landed on San Salvador…

Brunswick, we are glad to note, has just come in for some generous and interesting editorial comment in the pages of The Bulletin, official paper of the Catholic Layman's Association of Georgia…

For too many long years, too many people have been believing that Georgia's history began with the coming of General Oglethorpe and the English settlers in 1733, and a great and glorious era of this section of the Southland seemed to have been cast out of memory…

Like other expeditions and colonists, the Spanish were seeking wealth in the New World. But the missionary, who went side by side with the explorer, was at least as zealous in his quest for souls as the soldier was for riches…

In our recitation of the Litany of the Saints, when we implore the intercession of Patriarchs and Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs, Confessors and Virgins, we are, perhaps, inclined to think of martyrs in terms of those who suffered persecution under the pagan emperors of Rome or who died for the Faith in other far away times and places…

Georgia soil, long fertilized by the blood of martyrs, is beginning at last to flower forth into the real nobility of genuine Catholicity…