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To: Kaslin
"Catholics founded America's oldest settlement, in St. Augustine, Fla., in 1565,"

Actually, in 1564, in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, French Calvinists established the future USA's first settlement, Fort Caroline.

The next year the Spanish Roman Catholic Conquistador Menendez, who later founded St. Augustine, captured and murdered some of the 500+ French civilians, AFTER they surrendered--simply because they refused to convert to Roman Catholicism.

This brutal massacre even shocked Europe at the time, baptizing Roman Catholic history in America in the blood of Protestant Christians.

4 posted on 11/17/2012 1:33:02 PM PST by AnalogReigns (because the real world is not digital...)
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To: AnalogReigns

Most of those captured and murdered by Menendez were French Protestant soldiers and sailors shipwrecked while on their way to attack St. Augustine.

Murdering surrendered soldiers is bad enough without trying to turn them into civilians.


5 posted on 11/17/2012 1:44:10 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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