Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode, we are not going back very far at all.

We are only going back to the year 2016.

In that year, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, a sunken treasure was discovered.

About three feet under the sand was recovered, three bronze canons, a monument with a mark

of the King of France, and that would be King Charles, and there were also many iron

canons, many anchors, all sorts of other items, all from the shipwreck La Trinité.

Now this was a very important moment in history, and a very important moment in church history.

We can go back to 1564 for this, and that year, French Huguenot, under the direction

of Laudonnaie and Captain Jean-Ribot, established Fort Caroline, on the banks of the St.

John's River, just south of modern day Jacksonville.

The Spanish came in and established Saint Augustine in 1565, a little bit down the coast

to the south of Fort Caroline.

Well, hearing of this, Rebo and his soldiers set out in La Trinité, accompanied by six

other boats, and they were going to wage war on the Spanish.

As they set sail, however, a hurricane came up, and it drove their ships to the south.

The La Trinité was sunk.

The other ships were battered by waves and winds, and ended up across the shore.

What many historians believe is that the ships were just so destroyed, and that it re-so

scattered, that it just was never recovered.

Well, the Spanish gathered up these French soldiers, and massacred them.

The place is known as Fort Matanzas, and it's right on the Matanzas River.

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