In honor of Breastfeeding Awareness Week, I thought I'd share this picture from our trip last May to St. Augustine, FL. Outside the Cathedral there's a statue dedicated to Father Pedro Camps who led the Minorcan colony to the place that would be known as America's oldest city. While there I knew nothing about these early colonist, but was struck by the lowest sitting figure in the statue, the mother and child, having so obviously just finished nursing. 
There's a shrine there in St. Augustine to Our Lady of La Leche - the milk! It's a pilgrimage site for nursing mothers. :-)
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