Blaring trumpets and thundering artillery serenaded Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés as he waded ashore on September 8, 1565. The Spanish admiral kissed a cross held aloft by the fleet’s captain,... On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and 800 Spanish settlers founded the settlement of St. Augustine in La Florida (the Spanish territory of Florida). As soon as the settlers were ashore, the landing party celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving. According to some, the first Thanksgiving feast in North America was held in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565. “Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, along with 800 Spanish settlers, founded the city of St. Augustine in Spanish La Florida in 1565,” USA Today writes this week. About 55 years before English Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, Spanish settlers founded the city of St. Augustine in La Florida. When they came ashore on Sept. 8, 1565, the group... On September 8, 1565, the feast of Our Lady’s Nativity, Spanish Catholics sat down for their first Thanksgiving dinner in the colonial town of St. Augustine, Florida. Three things marked this event: a Catholic hero, a Mass, and a battle. Both the year and the century were chaotic at the time. 55 years before the Pilgrims even arrived in Plymouth, the first true Thanksgiving took place in St. Augustine, Florida. [Gregorian chanting] NARRATOR: Menéndez christened the new settlement San... The first Thanksgiving in our country took place in September 1565, when famed Spanish mariner Pedro Menéndez de Avilés along with 800 Spanish settlers celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving to commemorate the successful sea voyage and founding of the town of St. Augustine, which would go on to be the first and longest-lasting port within the ... Actually, several years, 56 years before the 1621 pilgrim Thanksgiving. And that took place in St. Augustine. And it was on Sept. 8, 1565. And it was led by several different Spanish priests. It was all part of the expedition of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. A few years ago, UF historian Michael Gannon drew fire when he called Pedro Menéndez’s Sept. 8, 1565, feast “the true first Thanksgiving.” In the beginning of The Secrets of Spanish Florida, he explains what happened next: “There was a guy who called me from WBZ, in Boston.
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