In 1632, King Charles I granted a charter to the second Lord Baltimore, Cecil Calvert for a Catholic colony, Maryland. Maryland soon became a colony of ...

Planned by George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, and actually founded by his son Cecil, the province was primarily a haven for persecuted Catholics; yet its ...

Provincial Maryland served as an early pioneer of religious toleration in the English colonies. However, religious strife among Anglicans, Puritans, Catholics, ...

Many of Maryland's first settlers were Catholic, including at least two Catholic priests, one of whom became the earliest chronicler of the colony's history.

24 июл. 2019 г. · Under Calvert's toleration, Church of England churches were built in St. Mary's County – all by voluntary subscriptions and the physical labor ...

26 июн. 2019 г. · Although it was created as a haven for English Catholics, many of the original settlers were Protestants.

The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 ensured religious freedoms to Christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Maryland.

Maryland, named after England's Catholic queen Henrietta Maria, was first settled in 1634. Unlike the religious experiments to the North, economic opportunity ...

... Maryland. Visit beautiful St. Clement's Island where the Ark and Dove first made landfall and held the first Catholic Mass in the Colonies, and tour Historic St ...