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• 56-years before French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, set eyes on the Texas coast at Matagorda Bay

By Matthew McDaniel, Reporter
• San Angelo Standard Times

SAN ANGELO, TEXAS - According to the earliest recorded happenings in this part of the West, the first Christian service in the area was a Mass celebrated near the confluence of the Concho River in 1629 ...

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