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SA's parish priest protested the Franciscans borrowing the Nombre de Dios statue to bless another do
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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A larger number of Yamasees lived at old Nombre de Dios, also called Macariz, where the alms of the devout had built a church and a convent with masonry walls. Bullones reminded the bishop that old Nombre de Dios was the site of the first Mass in St. Augustine and home of the ''most miraculous" and venerated image of Nuestra Senora de la Leche. In 1722 the secular and regular clergy had honored the shrine with one of their periodic scandals. Apparently the Franciscans had tried to take Our Lady out of her church temporarily "to bless a shrine of Nuestra Senora de la Leche" for a doctrina of "Chiluque" converts on their feastday, and the parish priest had rained injunctions on them and demanded that Governor Benavides send soldiers to call a halt to the procession (Benavides, l722; Bullones, 1728). (Bushnell SS)
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