<em>The colony of Maryland was established as a place where Catholics could be safe. </em>
The colony of Maryland was founded in 1632 by Cecil Calbert or Lord Baltimore. The first city was named St. Marys, in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony was established as a safe place for Catholics that were persecuted in Europe. In this, his new place in the Americas, Catholics were able to practice Catholicism and nobody would be chasing them.