Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine
by Laurie Perry
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Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine
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Laurie Perry
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Photograph - Photography
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The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine. The city of St. Augustine was founded and established in 1565 by Don Pedro Menendez de Avils. He began his adventure by sailing from the port of Cdiz, Spain. On August 28 of that year his expedition first sighted land along the east coast of Florida (the area that is today Cape Canaveral). It was the feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Menendez decided to give that saints name to his first settlement. He continued sailing north along the coast, eventually coming to the harbor of a native tribe of the Timucuan nation. Some of Menendezs party landed on September 6 with Menendez himself landing on September 8, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Upon coming ashore, Menendez was presented a cross to kiss by Father Lopez de Mendoza Grajales as the hymn Te Deum Laudamus was sung. The celebration of a Mass followed immediately, and thus began the story of the establishment of the oldest permanently occupied European settlement in what is now the United States of America, and, at the same time, the beginnings of what would be the Cathedral Parish.
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August 10th, 2014
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