This is the story of how the Martyrs of La Florida inspired one man to push beyond the tragic massacres of the indigenous people of faith, and fearless missiona

Describes the encounters between Franciscan friars and the indigenous peoples of La Florida in the sixteenth century. -- Back cover.

Few English-speaking readers are familiar with the life or the writings of the sixteenth-century Franciscan chronicler Luis Jerónimo de Oré, particularly his