ABSTRACT
The final religious group competing for followers in the Brazilian religious marketplace to be discussed came to South America from the United States. Protestants tried to break the nation’s Catholic monopoly twice in the early years—initially, in 1557, when French Huguenots settled on the shores of Guanabara Bay, and again in 1624, when Dutch Calvinists conquered Olinda, Recife, and Bahía in the Northeast. On both occasions, they were repulsed and driven out. Their houses of worship were confiscated and made the property of the Catholic Church.
