Actually, a reformed Church, Calvinists all, was established in Florida in 1564, BEFORE the Spanish Romanists settled St. Augustine.
St. Augustine’s founder, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, BUTCHERED OVER 500 French Hugueonauts who founded a French colony at Fort Caroline (in what is now Jacksonville, FL)....simply because they would not deny their faith and follow Rome.
In two incidents Menéndez fought the Calvinists to a point of surrender, took them prisoner—and offered to spare their lives if they swore allegiance to the Roman Church. When they refused he executed them all.
Salvation - the above post demonstrates to never expect more than half-truths from non-Catholics set on denigrating the church.
From the NPS, here is the truth:
The settlement barely survived that first year. Good relations with the Indians eventually soured and by the following spring the colonists were close to starvation. Twice mutinous parties had sailed off to make their own fortunes and some were eventually captured by the Spanish, revealing the presence of the French colony. The remaining colonists were about to leave Florida in August 1565, when they spotted sails on the horizon. Ribault had arrived with a relief expedition of supplies and 600 soldiers and settlers, including more women and some children.
On learning of Ribault’s departure for Florida, Phillip II of Spain sent Admiral Pedro Menendez to remove the French from Florida. Menendez established a base to the south at St. Augustine. Ribault sailed down the coast seeking to attack the Spanish, but his ships were scattered by a hurricane and beached far to the south.
Seizing the opportunity, Menendez marched north with 500 soldiers to attack the weakly guarded colony. It is believed that the Spanish camped overnight nearby, and attacked early. Forty or fifty French people, including Laudonniere, escaped and sailed for France. Out of the remaining 200 people, only about 60 women and children were spared.
Menendez next marched south and found the shipwrecked Frenchmen, Ribault among them. They threw themselves on his mercy, but to Menendez they were heretics and enemies of his king. At a place later named Matanzas (Slaughter), he put to the sword about 350 men - all but those professing to be Catholics and a few musicians. France never again strongly challenged Spanish claims in North America.
**a reformed Church, Calvinists all, was established in Florida in 1564**
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