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    Mission Nombre de Dios is a Catholic mission founded in 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida, on the west side of Matanzas Bay. It is part of the Diocese of...
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  • Mexico whose seat is Nombre de Dios Nombre de Dios (mission), mission in Florida Nombre de Dios River, river in Panama Nombre de Dios Grottoes, cave in Mexico...
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    Mass in what would become the United States. The mission established there, Mission Nombre de Dios, was also the first in that regard. Today, the National...
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    the location of the first Christian mission in the United States. Called the Mission Nombre de Dios, this mission was begun by Franciscan friars in 1587...
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    Mission Nombre de Dios, was founded at the landing point, perhaps the first mission in what would become the continental United States. The mission served...
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    Mission Nombre de Dios, was founded at the landing point, perhaps the first mission in what would become the continental United States. The mission served...
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  • Augustine, Florida. 1565: Spanish found Saint Augustine, Florida. (Mission Nombre de Dios) 1566–1587: Spanish in South Carolina (Charlesfort-Santa Elena site)...
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    Mission Nombre de Dios, was founded at the landing point, perhaps the first mission in what would become the continental United States. The mission served...
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    also 18 feet (5.5 m) shorter than the 208 ft (63 m) cross at the Mission Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, Florida, and shorter than the 213-foot-tall (65 m)...
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    century, Spaniards brought enslaved Africans to New Spain, including Mission Nombre de Dios in what would become the city of St. Augustine in Spanish Florida...
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    Our Lady of La Leche is a Catholic Marian shrine located at the Nombre de Dios Mission in St. Augustine, Florida. Originally built in 1609 in honor of...
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  • missionandshrine.org. Mission Nombre de Dios. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2015. "Mission Nombre de Dios". Diocese of...
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    of; in Manorville, New York Our Lady of La Leche, Shrine of; at Mission Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, Florida Our Lady of La Salette, National Shrine...
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    of the Americas portal Mission Nombre de Dios La Antigua, Veracruz L'Anse aux Meadows Spanish Florida In early 1521, Ponce de León had made a poorly documented...
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    The most important of these was St. Augustine, founded alongside Mission Nombre de Dios in 1565 but repeatedly attacked and burned by pirates, privateers...
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  • Student Center in Gainesville, Florida. He also served as Director of Mission Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, Florida from 1962-1967. It was during his directorship...
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  • expels Jesuits from Kyūshū 1587? Mission Nombre De Dios in St. Augustine, Florida, considered first Catholic mission to North America 1588 Spanish Armada...
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    Hideyoshi expelled Jesuits from Kyūshū 1587? Mission Nombre De Dios in St. Augustine, Florida, considered first mission to North America [13] 1588 – A Dominican...
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    of interest was St. Augustine, where the Spanish had established Mission Nombre de Dios with the help of Afro-Spanish slaves and settlers in the late 16th...
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    Florida became a Spanish colony. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in 1565 established the Nombre de Dios Mission in St. Augustine. His company included four priests...
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    free, were also among the Spanish settlers who established the Mission Nombre de Dios in the mid-16th century in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. Soon...
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    in 1528, and the landing of free and African enslaved persons at Mission Nombre de Dios in the future St. Augustine, Florida in 1565. The first Black city...
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    Spanish colony of San Miguel de Gualdape, where North America's first slave rebellion occurred. Mission Nombre de Dios came soon after, in what would...
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  • lived in Nombre de Dios, a town on the Caribbean side. Their principal settlement was at Vallano (or Bayano), 30 leagues below Nombre de Dios. In the 1570s...
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  • Indians from the remote towns of Ybica and Oconi to repopulate Mission Nombre de Dios, located at the spot where Pedro Menéndez landed when he founded...
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  • died in Nombre de Dios, Panamá, in 1577. Alas married Ana María de Valdés, and they had four children: Esteban de las Alas el Mozo, Ana Catalina de Miranda...
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    Imp. de Ferrer de Orga, 1885, p. 11. E. Balaguer Perigüell et R. Ballester Añon, En el nombre de los Niños, p. 120. "Balmis, Francisco Javier de", Enciclopedia...
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    with Agua Dulce Province, and any survivors may have relocated to Mission Nombre de Dios north of St. Augustine. Because of its strategic location as a river...
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    establishment of the Mission of Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 and 170 years following the founding of Mission San Gabriel del Yunque...
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    the inhabitants of Nombre de Dios mission near St. Augustuine were described as being Mocama. In 1674, the bishop of Santiago de Cuba, the diocess that...
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