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Queen of All America, by Stephen P. White – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Altarpiece of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Friar Juan de Zumárraga, and Juan Diego by Miguel Cabrera, c. mid-18th century [Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City]

By Stephen P. White,  The Catholic Thing, December 12, 2024

Stephen P. White is executive director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Note: Be sure to tune in tonight – Thursday, December 12th at 8 PM Eastern – to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on ‘The World Over.’ TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the Vatican’s “Palestinian” Nativity scene, Nancy Pelosi’s chiding of the pope over his China policy, as well as other developments in the Universal Church. Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.

The earliest history of the Catholic Church in the United States is decidedly Marian. The first recorded Mass in what is now the United States proper was celebrated at present-day St. Augustine, Florida in 1565. The date was September 8: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. The English-speaking colonies would have to wait almost seven decades for their first Mass, which was celebrated in what is now Maryland, in the year 1634. The date was March 25: the Feast of the Annunciation.

Of course, the history of Catholicism in the New World goes back even farther. We know Christopher Columbus brought several priests with him on his second voyage, and the first recorded Mass in the New World was celebrated in 1494, on the Feast of Epiphany, in what is today the Dominican Republic. (Consider that the first Mass in the New World was celebrated less than 100 years after the death of Geoffrey Chaucer.) …