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The Oldest Marian Shrine
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The Oldest Marian Shrine
What is the oldest Marian shrine in the United States? The Shrine of Our Lady de la Leche at Mission Nombre de Dios in St. Augustine, Florida, was built in 1615. The devotion to Mary as the nursing mother of Jesus and the patron of a safe childbirth began in Spain in the 1590s. King Philip III’s original statue given to a church in Madrid was destroyed in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Devotion to the nursing mother of Jesus in Bethlehem …
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