The first Catholic Mass recorded in the Americas was celebrated in 1494 in La Isabela, Dominican Republic during Christopher Columbus’s second voyage. However, despite various other possible claims, the first officially recorded Mass celebrated in what would later become the continental United States was held in St. Augustine, Florida on September 8, 1565.
Spanish Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, who was also the first governor of Florida, established the province of St. Augustine, this nation’s first permanent European settlement. As soon as he and his crew put ashore there, Fr. Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales celebrated Holy Mass in thanksgiving.
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