***The First Thanksgiving in North America was Catholic***

***The First Thanksgiving in North America was Catholic***
[From Tradition in Action-The TRUTH about Our Catholic History]
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On September 8, 1565, Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and 800 Spanish settlers founded the city of St. Augustine in Spanish La Florida. As soon as they were ashore, the landing party celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving.
[ The word “Eucharist” means “thanksgiving,” and so it is providence that the first Thanksgiving in America was the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. ]
Afterward, Don Menéndez set out a meal and invited the native Seloy tribe to join them in the feast and festival.
The celebrant of the Mass was St. Augustine’s first pastor, Fr. Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales, and the feast day was that of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In his personal chronicle, Fr. Lopez wrote that “the Indians imitated all they saw done.”
What was the meal that followed? From the records of the time, it would …More