St. Photios National Shrine
Website : Saint Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine Website
Description : “The St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, an institution of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, is dedicated to the first colony of Greek people who came to America in 1768. Come and visit our magnificent Orthodox Chapel filled with Byzantine style frescoes and take a tour of our historic museum. Special exhibits tell the story of the First Greek Colony in the New World. This freestanding exhibit contains various artifacts, photographs and historical documents” (source: Website).
European Americans United have been researhing the history of this shrine and have learned that the Greeks, along with some people from Minorca, were brought to Florida as white slaves. Their settlement, New Smyrna, is south of St Augustine, near Daytona. Datil peppers are a kind of hot pepper cultivated by the white slaves, and is unknown outside of the area. EAU gardeners are growing them for seed and, if they are successful, will send them to members with the annual seed packs, hopefully in 2010. EAU sends organic seeds as part of its gardening/self sufficiency project). So far, they have distributed to EAU members seeds for Jimmy Nardello’s Frying Pepper, Giant Dill, Red Mustard, Black Plum Tomato and others. EAU’s John Young is working on breeding Datil Peppers for a wider range of hardiness.
City : Saint Augustine
State : Florida
Latitude : 29.89648
Longitude : -81.31325
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