In 1492, Christopher Columbus (a Catholic) landed in the Caribbean. It wasn't until some years later that missionaries followed.
most tourists come to the Caribbean when the sun is out
I have been a Catholic for nearly fifty years, I asked two lifelong Catholics, include a 70 year old woman who was in a convent for a while. To the best of our collective knowledge, there is no "green leaves associated with Catholics as food" (leaving aside the fact that there are no "Roman Catholics" unless you are using Roman to refer to Latin rite Catholics, and all of us are Latin rite Catholics and we never heard of such a thing.)
Holy week is April 17th to April 24th .
Roman Catholic AnswerThe last year for which I have statistics is 2006, from the Statistical Yearbook of the Church. In that year, they listed the total Catholic population as 1,130,750,000. So it is safe to say that now it is over a billion people. Which right now of 2012, there are 1.81 billion Roman Catholics.
Deals for summer Caribbean vacation packages come out in late winter and early spring of the current year. A few cruise lines publish rates for the next year as well.
Catholic AnswerThe article below, put out by the BBC last year says that there are about 5 million Catholics in Britain, or about 1 out of every 12 people as of last year (2010).
Catholicism was founded on Pentecost Sunday in about the year 33 AD. Baptists did not come on the scene until 1609.
It was celebrated since before the year 500 in honour of the event of Mary's body being taken to heaven.
what year did amerindians came to the caribbean
There have been Catholics since around the year 33 AD, up to and including the present. There are about 1.1 billion Catholics in 2012.
You would need to specify a country, or at least a region, and perhaps a century to try and narrow your question down so that perhaps it can be answered.
Yes. It is a very special place for Catholics and millions of people visit it every year.