[livius]

Thanks for all the wonderful pictures! I live in Florida, where the Spanish also established a much less well-known mission chain through North Florida and Georgia. We have no pictures, unfortunately! The climate here contributed to that, of course, since the missions were built of wood and were either destroyed by the English from South Carolina or simply reclaimed by Florida's active insect population after the Spanish left.

It's a wonderful history, though, and I sometimes wonder if Catholics here realize what they owe to the many missionaries sent by Spain to this wild, inhospitable land. In many places, the Catholicism they planted seemed to disappear; but I prefer to think that it simply sank in deep and took root, and will reappear one of these days.

[Lady In Blue]

You're welcome,Livius.I'm glad that you liked the pictures.I'm just sorry that a couple of them didn't come out!

"It's a wonderful history, though, and I sometimes wonder if Catholics here realize what they owe to the many missionaries sent by Spain to this wild, inhospitable land. In many places, the Catholicism they planted seemed to disappear; but I prefer to think that it simply sank in deep and took root, and will reappear one of these days."

Beautifully said! And I couldn't agree with you more.BTW,I hate to admit it but I didn't know that the Spaniards build Missions in Florida and GA! It's too bad that they didn't survive for whatever reasons.