Father Pedro de Corpa, a Franciscan mission priest, was killed on this date by Guale Indians during a revolt at the Tolomato mission in northeast Florida (now southeast Georgia.) The Spanish mission system in Florida and Georgia was originally designed only for the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity, but they became important centers for interaction between Europeans and Native Americans. By the beginning of the 18th century however, most of the Spanish missions in the interior of Florida were abandoned due to the decline and relocation of Native American groups