tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20993778.post2884201895341700777..comments2024-03-28T01:33:17.573-04:00Comments on History Is Elementary: MY St. AugustineEHThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17964668210604436937noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20993778.post-24314206582087023192009-08-03T08:15:42.446-04:002009-08-03T08:15:42.446-04:00thanksthanksshafihttp://www.indhyan.innoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20993778.post-34694605151915274722009-08-03T08:15:02.579-04:002009-08-03T08:15:02.579-04:00thanksthanksshafihttp://www.indhyan.innoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20993778.post-13142944364295029102009-08-02T00:14:26.387-04:002009-08-02T00:14:26.387-04:00Wow ! You got one of those Black and white camera...Wow ! You got one of those Black and white cameras ! ;-)<br /><br />Wasn't St. Augustine also the staging grounds for the "American" episode in the European religious wars when the good Catholic Spanish left St. Augustine to go north to slaughter those "evil" French Huguenots (Protestants) who tried to establish a settlement in the Carolinas ? IIRC, Spanish leader/governor de La Florida, was a gentleman named Mendez ?<br /><br />Hope you're having a Great Summer ! Congrats on Anniversary #25....and may you both live happily ever after !Dan Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13397636504405471939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20993778.post-54653116843630935232009-07-31T08:21:21.665-04:002009-07-31T08:21:21.665-04:00I've never been to St. Augustine and yet I hav...I've never been to St. Augustine and yet I have a fond association with it because of some generous ladies who helped me when I was first pregnant. I wanted to breastfeed my baby but no one could assure me that I wouldn't starve him instead until I met the ladies of La Leche League.<br /><br />Why would they have named an organization something as likely to be mispronounced as La Leche? Well, in the 1950s newspapers would not print the words breast or breastfeeding. They didn't want to call themselves the Nursing Mothers League because that would be confused with RN-type nursing.<br /><br />The solution came from one of the founding fathers of Le Leche, Dr. Herbert Ratner, who had been to St. Augustine and had visited the shrine there dedicated to Nuestra Senora de la Leche y Buen Parto. He recognized in the title a reference to mothers' milk that could get past the censors in the newspaper office!<br /><br />The shrine is on the spot where it is believed Father Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales, chaplain of Pedro Menendez de Aviles' expedition, celebrated the first Mass in America's first mission.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14473193849524213878noreply@blogger.com