Most Americans grow up hearing that the “first Thanksgiving” happened in 1621 with the Pilgrims at Plymouth. But 56 years earlier, in 1565, there was another gathering of thanks, and it was unmistakably Catholic. When Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed in what is now St. Augustine, Florida, he encountered the local Timucua people on September 8. That morning, on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Spaniards did what Catholic tradition always required at the fo

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