Geocaching Pilgrimage #6 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/30/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Geocache placed about 20 feet south of the marker at the entrance to the church. Go to the light, but don't get wet!

Espiritu Santo, 1960
On Pentecost Sunday in May of 1539, the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto sailed into what is now Tampa Bay and named it Bahia Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit Bay). Ten years later in May 1549, Fr. Luis de Cancer, the famed Dominican missionary, sailed into the bay in a noble effort to spread the Gospel. For six weeks he made numerous contacts with the native peoples he encountered. On June 26, 1549, he was martyred on the northwest edge of the bay near Tocobaga village. Twenty years after that, a small chapel was erected nearby by a Jesuit priest in another short lived missionary endeavor. Four hundred years would pass before ground was broken for a permanent church on a beautiful knoll close to the site of these ancient Spanish missionary efforts. The contemporary Spanish mission style church with its large Fr. Luis de Cancer window pays tribute to those initial efforts of evangelization.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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