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The REAL First Thanksgiving

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It’s always good to know the real history. 

Most Americans were taught that the first Thanksgiving happened at Plymouth Rock in 1621.

But did you know that more than 55 years earlier, Spanish Catholic settlers in St. Augustine, Florida celebrated the real first Thanksgiving in what would become the United States. On September 8, 1565, they offered a Mass of thanksgiving, shared a feast with the Timucua tribe, and began a Catholic tradition long before the English Puritans ever arrived.

This history was buried because it doesn’t fit the Protestant-centric myth taught in American schools. But the record is clear:
The first city in America was Catholic.
The first feast of thanksgiving was Catholic.
The first act of gratitude on American soil was the Holy Mass.

From all of us at Souls and Liberty: Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.

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Gary Michael Voris
Gary Michael Voris
Mr. Voris holds a graduate degree, Cum Laude, from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Voris earned multiple awards for 40+ years of news media experience for writing, producing, and investigative work from the Associated Press, Detroit Press Club, and Michigan Broadcasters Association, as well as four news Emmys in multiple categories. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1983 with an undergraduate major in Communications and a minor in History.​ In 2006, exhausting more than $1 million dollars of his own life savings, he began Saint Michael's Media, blazing the trail and setting the standard in the Catholic media world for video presentations with the mission of bringing Christ to the internet. Voris has also authored multiple books and is perhaps most well-known for writing almost 4,000 scripts for his daily program, The Vortex.

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  1. Finally took the time to read entire piece. Wonderful! I give $ monthly. So glad I do.
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  2. Finally took the time to read entire piece. Wonderful! I give $ monthly. So glad I do.
    Prayers & good wishes. Keep it up!
    Happy Thanksgiving ❤️🙏

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