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ACH143: The first Mass celebrated in America may have been celebrated in Eastertide in Florida in 1513. Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell the story of Ponce de Leon’s expedition to the unexplored land, which first brought Catholicism to these shores centuries before independence.

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Links for this episode:

• Juan Ponce de León – HISTORY
• 1500’s | Diocese of St. Augustine
• Ponce de León : Florida’s First Spanish Explorer
• “Ponce de Leon’s First Voyage and Discovery of Florida,” The Florida Historical Society Quarterly
  Vol. 14, No. 1, History of Juan Ponce de Leon’s Voyages to Florida (Jul., 1935)
• Florida’s Catholic heritage – The Catholic Sun
• Juan Ponce de León – Wikipedia

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