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The Role the Catholics Played at the first Thanksgiving
The Pilgrims and Puritans were Protestants all.
And since Thanksgiving was about them,
Thanksgiving is strictly a Protestant event, right?
Wrong !! Thanksgiving included the Indians,
Chief Masasoit brought along 90 Indian Braves.
More importantly Squanto, Indian Extraordinare, was there also.
He had been kidnapped by an English ship captain in 1605,
Brought to England, he was then sold as a slave.
There he learned English and met John Smith,
Of John Smith and Pocohanus fame.
Smith brought him back to America.
But then another English ship came by and
Squanto was captured all over again !!
This time he was taken to Spain.
Some Roman Catholic friars bought him and freed him,
He converted to Christianity in gratitude.
So Squanto made it back to Plymouth. Massachusetts,
Just in time to meet the Pilgrims before they gave up.
Yes, they were about to return to England, defeated.
An English-speaking Christian Indian,
HOW miraculous his arrival must have seemed !!
He must have been viewed as a God-sent by the Pilgrims !!
And to think it was partly due the the hated Catholics.
Squanto's appearing led them to stick it out.
With Thanksgiving at the end of the harvest season being the result.
There would have been no Thanksgiving without Squanto.
There would have been no Thanksgiving without
The Catholic friars who saved him from the life of a slave.
And since Thanksgiving was about them,
Thanksgiving is strictly a Protestant event, right?
Wrong !! Thanksgiving included the Indians,
Chief Masasoit brought along 90 Indian Braves.
More importantly Squanto, Indian Extraordinare, was there also.
He had been kidnapped by an English ship captain in 1605,
Brought to England, he was then sold as a slave.
There he learned English and met John Smith,
Of John Smith and Pocohanus fame.
Smith brought him back to America.
But then another English ship came by and
Squanto was captured all over again !!
This time he was taken to Spain.
Some Roman Catholic friars bought him and freed him,
He converted to Christianity in gratitude.
So Squanto made it back to Plymouth. Massachusetts,
Just in time to meet the Pilgrims before they gave up.
Yes, they were about to return to England, defeated.
An English-speaking Christian Indian,
HOW miraculous his arrival must have seemed !!
He must have been viewed as a God-sent by the Pilgrims !!
And to think it was partly due the the hated Catholics.
Squanto's appearing led them to stick it out.
With Thanksgiving at the end of the harvest season being the result.
There would have been no Thanksgiving without Squanto.
There would have been no Thanksgiving without
The Catholic friars who saved him from the life of a slave.
Published 30th Nov 2015
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30th Nov 2015 9:10pm
Yes, Catholics can be very helpful. If Nixon had won in 1960 instead of Kennedy, there probably wouldn't have been Neil Armstrong saying, "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." It was JFK who launched the moon-landing mission. "I propose to land a man on the moon by the end of this decade...not because it is easy but because it is hard." One reason I doubt that Nixon would have done it is this: as soon as Nixon came in, in 1968, he cut back on the NASA budget (except for stuff already in the pipeline.) Yes, without Kennedy, we might never have put a man on the moon!! Thank God for the Roman Catholics among us !!
