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Jan 1, 1565
Coming to America
(1) Spaniards found the first Catholic settlement in North America in (2) St. Augustine, Florida. -
Period: Jan 1, 1565 to
Important Dates
This is the timespan of all the important events that occured during the Counter Reformation. -
The Word is spread throughout the world
Spanish (3) Dominicans Antonio Montesino and (4) Bartolome de las Casas defended humanity.
(5) Francis Xavier baptized people in Goa and brought Catholic faith to India and (6) Japan.
French Catholic (7) missionaries came to the New World-land, where they worked called, "(8) New France," stretched from Quebec in present-day Canada, through the American Midwest, and down to New Orleans, Louisiana. -
English settle in America
English came to (9) settle in the New World. -
Protestants and Catholics have their differences
(10) Thirty Years' War involved fighting between the (11) Protestants and the Catholics. This ended in 1648. -
Religious Freedom
(12) Pilgrims, who came from England seeking religious freedom, settled in (13) Massachusetts.
(14) George Calvert, first lord of Baltimore, asked King Charles to establish a colony where English Catholics could (15) worship freely. -
Coordination of the Missionary Work
Pope Gregory XV founded the (16) Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. -
Settlement of Mary's Land
King granted permission and a group of settlers set sail on the (17) Ark and (18) Dove and settled in Mary's land in honor of the kings wife, (19) Queen Henrietta Maria. -
Protestants Take Over
(20) Protestants gained power in the colonies. This took place in the mid 1640s. -
End of the Thirty Years' War
(21) The Peace of Westphailia, a series of treaties, declared that the religion of the ruler of each area would become the religion of the people in that area.
(22) The Absolute Monarchs Age began. Europe's kings and queens gained complete or absolute power over all aspects of the lives of their people even deciding which religion to practice. This lasted (23) one hundred and fifty years. -
Descimination in the New World
Catholics were denied the right to (24) vote. This and many more acts of descimination to Catholics happened a lot during this time in Maryland. -
New Beginning
Pennsylvania was founded by (25) William Penn. It became a place of religious (26) refuge. -
The Shift of Power
Louis XVI had the French bishops sign a (27) document which enabled him to rule the Church in France.
(28) Emporer Joseph II ruled in Austria, abolished monasteries, and put the state in charge of seminaries. -
The Enlightenment
(29) Leading thinkers of the Enlightenment began to portray faith as a kind of weakness, a refusal to think for oneself, or even something childish, or (30) immature. There was the idea that religious faith had no place in society, science, or (31) government. -
Coordination of the Missionary Work
(32) Pope Pius VI began to organize the Catholics in America.
Father John Carroll became (33) "Superior of the Mission" in the United States. -
The Church Officially Settles
(34) John Carroll was ordained the first bishop of Baltimore, Maryland--the first diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States.
