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The text on the stone's front is “Presented to Golden Gate Park at the opening of the Mid-Winter Fair
January 1 AD 1894, as a memorial of the service held on the shore of Drakes Bay about Saint John Baptist’s Day, June 24 Anno Domini 1579 by Francis Fletcher, Priest of the Church of England, Chaplain
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Three hundred and fourteen years ago the
English navigator Sir Francis Drake made a landing from his ship, the Golden Hinde, at what has since been known as Drake's Bay, and Francis Flitcher, a Presbyter of the Church of England and Chaplain of the Golden Hinde, preached the first sermon in the
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The monument is constructed on a pedestal of stone eighteen feet (5.5 m) square and seven feet (2.1 m) in height. The Cross is 57 feet (17 m) high. It is made of 68 pieces weighing 600,000 pounds (270,000 kg). The arms are formed of eight pieces weighing 24,000 pounds
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as the representative of the donor. Bishop
Nichols pulled the cord which withdrew the flag covering the monument and thus presented the Cross to the commissioners of Golden Gate Park. Mr. W. W. Stow, Park Commissioner remarked on the large interest in the Midwinter Fair.
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Francisco. The Cross acknowledges that Drake's chaplain, Francis Fletcher, celebrated the first Protestant service, that of the Church of England, on or about
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The text on the back is “First
Christian Service in the English Tongue On Our Coast, First Use of the Book of Common Prayer in Our Country, One of the First Recorded Missionary Prayers On Our Continent, SOLI DEO SIT SEMPER GLORIA.”
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spoke on the history of Drake and his landing at Drakes Bay.
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