Just two Catholic names appear on our Constitution itself, but the Catholic faith has always been part of the American story. The first Christian service on our soil was a Catholic Mass. The oldest permanent settlement in the United States is The town of St. Augustine, planted by Spanish Catholics on the coastal sands of my home state of Florida. Catholic saints were martyred on American soil well over a century before the Revolution began. (01:15–01:25)
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Asserts that St. Augustine is the oldest permanent settlement in the United States.
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