St. Catherines is a place that plays against type.
In a state that prides itself on its English heritage it once hosted a Spanish mission.
Along a coast renowned for its native beauty it’s home to African lemurs and hartebeests.
Among islands publicly owned or privately developed it remains the unspoiled domain of a charitable foundation.
Last week the 14,000-acre Liberty County island served up another surprise when the Most Rev. Gregory J. Hartmayer, the Bishop of Savannah, visited for the first time in his two years at the helm of the diocese.
A Franciscan priest, Hartmayer went to pay his respects to the memory of two 16th century Franciscan friars who, the story goes, were martyred on St. Catherines defending the sanctity of marriage against a polygamous Guale Indian leader.
But evidence on St. Catherines is building a different narrative, and the archaeologists revealing it are racing against the rapid erosion that’s eating away at the island’s history.
via On St. Catherines, martyrs reinterpreted | savannahnow.com.
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