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Pius V was also very involved with evangelization, and gave the Spanish great encouragement in evangelizing the New World. My town, St Augustine, was founded the year before he was elected, and we have a mural in the Cathedral that shows Pius V sending a letter to the representative of our first governor, Menendez de Aviles, encouraging him to evangelize the Indians and to have the new town of San Agustin live a good Catholic life that would be a model to the Indians. He was a friend of St Francis Borgia, general of the Jesuits, and was instrumental in getting the Jesuits to the new lands.
There are several churches and schools in Florida named after Pius V, but I doubt that most Floridians even know who he was or realize how important he was in establishing the Church in what is now the US.