Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Is thanksgiving Catholic?

We talked a little about thanksgiving in youth group the other day. Here is a little more about Thanksgiving (which they wont teach you in public school...).

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This history books will tell you that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621. Not true.

An interesting bit of trivia is that the first American Thanksgiving was actually celebrated on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. The Native Americans and Spanish settlers held a feast and the Holy Mass was offered.

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read the whole story.

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