Pilgrims Walk in the Steps of the Georgia Martyrs

Q&A with Fr Flader: The martyrs of Georgia

Five Franciscan missionaries who gave their lives for the faith on the coast of present-day Georgia will be beatified later this year. Who where they and how did they die?

Pilgrims walk in the steps of the Georgia Martyrs

DARIEN, Ga. (OSV News) — In late October, a little more than a month after Archbishop Fulton Sheen is to become “blessed,” the sixth beatification on American soil will take place — this time of five Franciscan martyrs who died in 1597 in the Georgia seedbed of American Catholicism. The pilgrims participating in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage this summer spent some time walking in the footsteps of Friar Pedro de Corpa and his four companion…

A pilgrim’s guide to the Georgia martyrs

DARIEN, Ga. (OSV News) -- In late October, a little more than a month after Archbishop Fulton Sheen is to become "blessed," the sixth beatification on American soil will take place -- this time of five Franciscan martyrs who died in 1597 in the Georgia seedbed of American Catholicism. DARIEN, Ga. (OSV News) -- In late October,

Eucharistic pilgrims relive the footsteps of the Georgia Franciscan Martyrs - The Dialog

DARIEN, Ga. — In late October, a little more than a month after Archbishop Fulton Sheen is to become “blessed,” the sixth beatification on American soil will take place — this time of five Franciscan martyrs who died in 1597 in the Georgia seedbed of American Catholicism. The pilgrims participating in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage this summer spent some time walking in the footsteps of Friar Pedro de Corpa and his four companions — also kn…