Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 45 Number 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 45, Article 9 Number 1 1966 Book Reviews Florida Historical Society
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[email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1966) "Book Reviews," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 45 : No. 1 , Article 9. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol45/iss1/9 Society: Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870. By Father Michael V. Gannon. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1965. xv, 210 pp. Introduction, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, $5.00.) To signal Florida’s Quadricentennial, author and publisher have produced a properly handsome volume whose appearance will please every reader. Because the Roman Catholic church was planted with the first Spanish settlements, they have ap- propriately marked this anniversary with a history of the church in Florida from discovery to 1870. The author has unusual qualifications because he is both an historian of the church in Florida and director of the Mission of Nombre de Dios, founding site of church and state in Florida. Because Florida was a frontier border zone, the church’s fortunes depended upon the vicissitudes of empire.