![]() While the Charter of Maryland does not specify the Catholic religion as being dominant there (in fact it purports to be dedicated to the "Ecclesiasticall Lawes of our Kingdome of England"), Baron Baltimore, Ceclius Calvert (in whom all colonial authority rested) was a devout Catholic. ![]() Among the stories presented here is that of Father Andrew White, who would perform the first Mass in the original thirteen colonies in 1634 in Maryland. Some of the history of this period is detailed in Clayton Colman Hall's collection Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684. ![]() Maryland was one of the few predominantly Catholic colonies in America during the English colonial period. While there were some positives, as evidenced in some of the following documents, the colonial era was one of the darkest in American Catholic history. ![]() As such, colonial Catholics often felt the sting of persecution, due to a deep seated hatred for the Church that many blamed for Protestant persecutions many decades before, in addition to a belief among many Protestants that the Church was too corrupt in its present form. Catholics were a minority during the colonial era that was dominanted by Puritans and Anglicans. ![]()
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