At the turn of the 19th century the Amerikaener Religious Revival movement kicked off amongst religiously disillusioned Amerikaeners both within New Netherland as well as in the Dutch controlled territories of North America. Amerikaeners started to resent Church institutions that didn't speak to the common people and were entrenched within the established plutocratic hierarchies of Amerikaener political life. As a reaction to and as a act of rebellion against the entrenched Dutch Reformed Church, thousands of Amerikaeners started to attend mobile revivalist meetings that travelled the country and preached a unique homegrown version of Amerikaener protestant Christianity. These beliefs eventually started to condense into several new churches and religious movements, which then faced political and social pressures from the established religious order. One of the earliest of these new movements were the Venerationists who be believed in a Christ-center primitivist from of Christianity which was popular amongst the Boertrekkers.
In 1803 a Venerationist priest named Pastor Jeb SimonTeuling claimed to receive a vision from God that build a "New Zion" far away from the excesses and sin of modern New Netherland society. With his natural charisma and charm he found a large following quite rapidly in revivalist and venerationist circles in New Netherland and started to preach a version of Christianity that dramatically broke from mainstream (and even revivalist) protestant tradition. In 1805 he founded the Church of Christ the Redeemer and over the next decade became a major figure in New Netherland religious life, so much in fact that he and his followers (which now went by Redemptionists) faced strict repression from the New Netherland government. In 1814 SimonTeuling claimed to receive another direct vision from God that he and his followers should leave New Netherland, so after sending out dozens of scouts to many different locations the Church decided upon the Spanish domain of Costa Rica in Central America to start their new society. In 1815 they founded the city of Voorhaven and over the next few years started to immigrate in mass to Costa Rica (which they called Boschland). Initially they stayed in the Atlantic lowlands but after much trouble in the first few years of settlement moved to the Talamanca highlands.
Over the next decades more and more followers of SimonTeuling and Redemptionists immigrated to Boschland as well as heavy proselytizing of the already existing Costa Rican population (who more mostly ignored by the Spanish crown and the Catholic Church institutions). After the Latin American Spring of Nations and Colombian Independence the Spanish crown started to build strong relations with the Redemptionists in Costa Rica who they viewed favorably for developing the land and serving as a bulwark between the rebellious Colombians and the rich New Spain colony. This culminated in 1871 when the King of Spain separated Boschland from New Spain at the behest of local Redemptionist into the directly governed captaincy general of Costa Rica.
