The Mission Nombre de Dios traces its origins to the founding of the City of St. Augustine, America’s oldest City, in 1565. On Sept. 8, 1565 Pedro Menéndez de Avíles landed and proclaimed this site for Spain and the Church. It was here that Menéndez knelt to kiss a wooden cross presented to him by Father Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales, chaplain of his expedition. It was on these grounds that Father Lopez would celebrate the First Thankgsgiving Mass and begin the work at America’s first Mission. It was at this sacred spot that the Spanish settlers would begin the devotion to Our Lady of la Leche, the first Marian Shrine in what is today the United States.
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