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Father Segura:
b 1529 / d 4 February 1571
Juan Baptista de Segura was a Jesuit priest in La Florida who in 1570 established a mission along the York River. He was killed the next year by Don Luis De Velasco (formerly Paquiquineo), a Virginia Indian who had converted to Christianity. When Spanish troops avenged the killing, they possibly contributed to the formation by the Powhatans of an empire able to confront the next European invaders. |