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Martyrs of La FloridaSpreading devotion ✝ Promoting their Beatification ✝ Building a Shrine
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Martyrs
La Florida has martyrs! From 1549-1715 the historic lands of the Southeast once called La Florida have a glorious past blessed by the native people and missionaries who made the ultimate sacrifice for the Faith.
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Beatification
The beatification cause is now in Rome! Please ask the martyrs to pray for your special intentions…and please pray for their beatification.
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Shrine
Plans are underway to build a Shrine to Mary, Queen of the Martyrs. The shrine is planned to be built on beautiful acreage on the east side of Tallahassee, Florida. The oratory will be specially dedicated to St. Joseph, Patron Saint of Converted Indians.
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Ask the martyrs for their intercession for your special intentions.
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Honor the MartyrsJoin the journey of faith, courage, and devotion to honor the Martyrs of la Florida. Your support is necessary to beatify these brave and holy souls, establish a shrine, share the martyrs’ story and spread devotion worldwide. -
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Florida, which has been bedewed in the East and in the West, in the North and in the South with purest blood of martyrs!
Bishop Augustin Verot, Pastoral Letter, 1858
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