America Loves Catholicism: As Seen in Place Names Everywhere

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | Nov, 21, 2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[Salvation]

America Loves Catholicism: As Seen in Place Names Everywhere

By: Msgr. Charles Pope

The video below boasts, “America loves Italy” and features a Fiat car driving through American towns with Italian names.

If that is the case then America loves Catholicism even more, since thousands of towns and places are named for Catholic saints, themes, and objects. Consider the following:

In California: San Diego, San Miguel, San Francisco, San Bernadino, San Clemente, San Luis Obispo, San Jose, San Rafael, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles (aka Nuestra Senora de los Angeles de la Porciuncula), Santa Cruz, Santa Clarita, Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley, San Gabriel Mountains

In Texas: Corpus Christi, San Antonio

In Florida: St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, Port St. Lucie, Santa Rosa Island, St. George Island, Port St. Joe.

And these are just three states! The map at the upper right (which you can click to enlarge) shows thousands of cities, towns, and places named for saints and things Catholic.

What’s in a name? Usually history, honor, and respect. If so, then Catholicism has left its mark on this country whether the secularists like it or not. I wonder when and if they will sue to remove these sorts of names as St Petersburg, Russia once became Leningrad.

[NKP_Vet]

“because nobody else would have ever crossed the Atlantic if he hadn’t”

Most explorers were Catholic. If not Columbus it would have been another Catholic explorer.

[icwhatudo]

Cape Saint Claire, Anne Arundel County
Cape Saint John, Anne Arundel County
Saint Anthony
Saint Aubins Heights, Talbot County
Saint Augustine, Cecil County
Saint Charles, Charles County
Saint Clements Shores, St. Marys County
Saint Denis, Baltimore County
Saint George Island, St. Marys County
Saint George Park, St. Marys County
Saint Georges, Baltimore County
Saint Helena, Baltimore County
Saint James, Washington County
Saint James, St. Marys County
Saint Leonard, Calvert County
Saint Margarets, Anne Arundel County
Saint Martin, Worcester
Saint Marys City, St. Marys County
Saint Michaels, Talbot County
Saint Stephen, Somerset County

[cloudmountain]

Post the saint names from your state!

From http://www.catholic.org/saints/missions.php
The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans.

There are 21 Catholic missions established in California.
Spanish Name; English Name

La Purísima de Concepcíon; The Immaculate Conception

Nuestra Señora de Soledad; Our Lady of Solitude [a.k.a. Soledad, women's prison there]

San Antonio de Padua; St. Anthony of Padua

San Buenaventura; St. Bonaventure

San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo; [Many Giants baseball players live there]

St. Charles Borromeo (of Carmel)

San Fernando Rey de España; St. Ferdinand, King of Spain

San Francisco de Assis; St. Francis of Assisi [Banking capital of the west coast, City by the Bay, Foggy: Mark Twain said: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."]

San Francisco Solano; St. Francis Solano [Solano]

San Gabriel Arcángel; The Archangel Gabriel

San Jose de Guadalupe; St. Joseph [San Jose--University town]

San Juan Bautista; St. John the Baptist

San Juan Capistrano; St. John of Capistrano [Swallows return there every year.]

San Luis Obispo de Tolosa; St. Louis, Bishop of Toulose [Home of the UOP, a "party school"]

San Luis Rey de Fráncia; St. Louis, King of France

San Miguel Arcángel; The Archangel Michael

San Rafael Arcángel; The Archangel Raphael [Wealthy folks]

Santa Barbara; St. Barbara [Wealthy folks]

Santa Clara de Assis; St. Claire of Assisi [University town]

Santa Cruz; Holy Cross [I have a cousin who lives in Santa Cruz]

Santa Inés; St. Agnes

***I don't know why they left out La Ciudád de Los Angeles; City of the Angels--a.k.a. Los Angeles and HOLLYWOOD

***San Quentin isn't mentioned either, also the home of a serious prison

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Is that enough for ya? :o)

[cloudmountain]

Don’t forget one of ALaskan island is St Paul that near Dutch Harbor

I didn't know that! How interesting.

[ealgeone]

“Overwhelming support for liberal ideas and candidates”

Voting patterns for catholics in U.S. presidential elections.

YR	% of Catholic Vote for Dimocrat	Winning Party
48	62	D
52	52	R
56	46	R
60	82	D
64	79	D
68	56	R
72	39	R
76	57	D
80	41	R
84	46	R
88	52	R
92	50	D
96	55	D
00	50	R
04	51	R
08	57	D
12	53	D

Bold indicates majority catholic vote for Republican candidate.

[ealgeone]

YR	% of Catholic Vote for Dimocrat	Winning Party
48	62	D
52	52	R
56	46	R
60	82	D
64	79	D
68	56	R
72	39	R
76	57	D
80	41	R
84	46	R
88	52	R
92	50	D
96	55	D
00	50	R
04	51	R
08	57	D
12	53	D

bold indicates 50% or more of catholic vote to GOP candidate

correction...my apologies for the error in elections where catholics voted 50% or more for GOP candidate. it has only been four: 56; 72; 80; 84.

Another way to view this...in 76% of the elections since 1948 catholics have supported liberal dimocrat candidates.

[NKP_Vet]

Almost 50/50 in the last 30 years. I didn’t realize that Nixon got almost 60% of the Catholic vote.

[ealgeone]

More like 4 of 17 has the catholic vote been 50% or more for GOP candidates.

[Salvation]

Many of these missions was founded by Bl. Junipero Serra.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"WE are ranting (if you want to call it that!) because of the incessant drone of Roman Cultic assignation of blah blah blah..."

[NKP_Vet]

Getting closer. With more hispanics getting off the government dole it can only go up.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Whoever compiled that chart is consistently awarding the dems 3% or more of the Catholic vote than they actually got per Pew Research.

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/11/07/how-the-faithful-voted-2012-preliminary-exit-poll-analysis/

Care to cite those numbers you're pushing?

[NKP_Vet]

Rush said that the Obama amnesty should have called the
Democrat Voter Initiative. He’s exactly right. Democrats know without the illegals (majority are Catholic), they cant win future elections. Low info voters vote for who can give them the most, and that’s always the democrat and it makes no difference whatsover what faith someone holds.

[JPX2011]

Granted he gets credit, but he didn't land on the North American continent that constitutes the US.

So what's your ultimate concern here? Is it your belief that Catholicism represents an existential threat to the continued existence of the United States?

[ealgeone]

Agree with your post 73.

[JPX2011]

It brings DISHONOR to give that post to anyone but Jesus Christ

Bzzz. Wrong answer. What brings dishonor to Christ is the carnal attitudes of protestants. To assume through flawed interpretation of scripture that the anti-Catholic prejudices of protestants are the prejudices of Christ.

The inevitable 'God in a box' problem as expressed by the protestant contingent and their man made understandings of the ways of God.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Wait, do places settled by Protestants even have specifically Christian names?

Actually, yes. Pretty much anyplace with biblical geographical names like Jericho, Salem, Bethany, Bethabara, Canaan or New Canaan, Nazareth, Ephrata, Bethel, Lebanon, Gilead (various forms), Pisgah, Philippi, Berea, Antioch, Mount Calvary, Zion (various forms), etc. were most likely settled and named by Methodists, Baptists, or Presbyterians. Likewise, many of the St. Georges were founded by English Anglicans, St. Davids by Methodist or Anglican Welshmen, and there's even a St. Francis in NW Kansas that was settled by German Lutherans.

[Salvation]

But those are still biblical and Catholic names, just borrowed by protestants.

I saw one above that surprised me, though.

Calvert

[Yashcheritsiy]

But those are still biblical and Catholic names, just borrowed by protestants.

Biblical names, yes. Catholic names, no. They were named based on the piety of their founders for the Scriptures themselves. Catholicism had zilch to do with it.

Or wait - is this a Catholic version of the "Abraham Lincoln was really a gay man" argument?

[Yashcheritsiy]

Calvert

Actually, "Calvert" is named after the Lords Calvert, Barons of Baltimore.