The Island Cross is a Pensacola Beach landmark that commemorates "the first [Western] religious service in the Pensacola area" (and by extension the United States) on August 15, 1559, when Dominican friars with the Luna expedition performed a mass on Santa Rosa Island celebrating the Assumption of Mary. .

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