San Agustín de La Florida is the first city founded in the current United States, by the illustrious sailor Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and Alonso de La Campa. Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra, the resigned Archbishop of Madrid, who has also been Archbishop of Oviedo, thus assumes the task of directing the events that will take place there next month.
The Holy See announced this Saturday, at the Angellus time, as is customary in Vatican communiqués, that Pope Francis had appointed Osoro as pontifical delegate.or on the anniversary of the diocese of San Agustín. The announcement comes a few months after the Pontiff appointed the cardinal as a new member of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
According to the records of the diocese of St. Augustine, the oldest standing American Marian shrine is that of Our Lady of Milk. The church was built on what was then the Santo Nombre de Dios mission, founded in 1587 by Franciscan missionaries in San Agustín, the Atlantic coast. Holy Mass was celebrated there for the first time in 1565, before the construction of the mission and the sanctuary. It was in 1609 when a place of worship was prepared, this time under the protection of the Virgen de la Leche.
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