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Don’t Know Much About® St. Augustine — Hidden History of America’s “Oldest City”
On September 8, 1565, a group of Spanish sailors, soldiers, priests and colonists landed in Florida and celebrated mass –the “beginning” of Christianity in America, as St. Augustine’s boosters tell us. This is the founding day of what is called “America’s oldest permanent European settlement.” The Spanish colonists were led by Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles. But just what were Menendez and his 800-strong group doing in Florida?
