Nombre de Dios, Catholic mission in St. Augustine, Florida, US.

Nombre de Dios is a Catholic mission set on spacious green grounds in St. Augustine with religious structures, shrines, statues, and a 208-foot stainless steel cross. The museum on the grounds displays archaeological finds, including historic items from the early settlement period.

The mission was founded in 1565 when Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived with settlers and established St. Augustine as the first European settlement in North America. This founding marked the beginning of European presence in what is now the United States.

The devotion to Our Lady of La Leche came from Spain in the late 1500s, making the grounds home to the first Marian shrine in the United States. Its centerpiece is a statue of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus, a replica of the one Philip III placed in a Spanish cathedral. Pilgrims come seeking blessings for successful pregnancy and delivery.

The grounds lie on the west side of Matanzas Bay, with the Prince of Peace Votive Church at the San Marco Avenue entrance and the Great Cross rising 208 feet above the Matanzas marshes. The ivy-covered chapel of Our Lady of La Leche seats about 30 people. The museum opened in 2010 and charges no admission fee.

The Great Cross, erected in 1966 for the mission's 400th anniversary, is made of stainless steel and rises 208 feet above the Matanzas marshes. It was dedicated by Archbishop Casimiro Morcillo of Madrid during a diocesan Eucharistic Congress.