Father Lopez Desktop Font

Father Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales was one of four priests recruited to join Pedro Menéndez de Avilés’ 1565 Florida expedition. Father López served as fleet chaplain, and on September 8, 1565, he celebrated the first Catholic Mass in the newly-established settlement of St. Augustine, Florida. 

This font was created from Father López’s original memoir of the Menéndez expedition, housed in Seville’s Archivo General de Indias (AGI Patronato 19, R. 17). Written in his own hand, López’s account describes the transatlantic voyage, the storms that almost destroyed the fleet, and the dramatic weeks that followed the founding of St. Augustine, as Spanish and French colonists struggled for a foothold in northeast Florida. 

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Designed and Programmed by Melissa Morales, in collaboration with OverlaB Intelligence and La Florida.