Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato
History. The Tolomato mission became one of the centers of the Guale chiefdom in Georgia. Although the Guale Indians had had regular contact with the Franciscans since 1573, the mission was not founded, according to Lanning, until 1595 by the Spanish friar Pedro Ruiz, but more recent scholarship indicates that Friar Pedro Corpa was the founder of the mission, having arrived at the village of Tolomato in 1587, accompanied by Governor Hugo de Avendaño . This mission acquired notoriety in 1597, when Juanillo, a Guale "mico", or chieftain, led a revolt against the missionary presence  in Spanish Florida and the cultural subjugation suffered by the indigenous population under the domination of the Spanish and Criollo authorities. This revolt, sometimes called the Gualean Revolt, was the first and longest-lasting Guale revolt to arise in Florida. The revolt began with the slaying of Friar Pedro Corpa, after which the tribe killed four more Franciscans and enslaved Friar Francisco Dávila, who was later liberated by the Spanish governor of Florida, Gonzalo Mendez de Cancio. The Indians attacked and burned the missions and churches in the area, but the revolt ended when an expedition led by the chieftain  Asao, an ally of the Spanish, assaulted Juanillo's camp, killing him with 24 of his main supporters. The deaths of the principal actors in the uprising brought a temporary peace to Florida. The Tolomato people settled in St. Catherines Island, Georgia, where they lived until the middle 1600s. The mission was not reestablished until 1605, when it was rebuilt in the Native American village of Espogache under the direction of Friar Diego Delgado. The mission was modified several times between 1605 and 1680, including the addition of several new structural elements. In the mid-1620s, some of the Tolomato people  who had survived the revolt of 1597 against the Spanish missions settled at Guana, three leagues north of St. Augustine, where the Spanish authorities created a new Tolomato mission intended to be a way station for a ferry service to San Juan del Puerto. In 1702, James Moore, the Governor of South Carolina, and Colonel Robert Daniels destroyed the mission. In 1717, another Tolomato mission was established in Guale, but the exact site is unknown.