Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who is celebrating this day!
I hope that you have your family near you, dinning at the same table!Here in Spain, we don't have this holiday, but I found this in Wikipedia:
I hope that you have your family near you, dinning at the same table!Here in Spain, we don't have this holiday, but I found this in Wikipedia:
The first recorded Thanksgiving ceremony took place on September 8, 1565,[via Wikipedia]
when 600 Spanish settlers, under the leadership of Pedro
Menéndez de Avilés, landed at what is now St.
Augustine, Florida, and
immediately held a Mass of Thanksgiving for their safe delivery to the New
World; there followed a feast and celebration. As the La Florida colony did
become part of the United States, this can be classified as the first
Thanksgiving.[1]
El Paso, Texas, has also been
said to be the site of the first Thanksgiving to be held in what is now known as
the United States, though that was not a harvest festival. Spaniard Don Juan de
Oñate ordered his expedition party to rest and conducted a mass in
celebration of thanksgiving on April 30, 1598.[2]
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