This may not be news to you, but it was a pleasant surprise to me.
Was Squanto a baptized Catholic?
Hunt took Squanto to Spain to sell him as a slave. But some Franciscan friars saw what was happening and saved Squanto. The Franciscans taught Squanto the Catholic faith and he was apparently baptized.
Squanto the Catholic - Missionaries of the Holy Family
Missionaries of the Holy Family
https://msf-america.org › blog › 310-squanto-the-cath
ROFLMAO.
The Puritans who traveled in the Mayflower were far from being the first English people to colonize in North America, and “Squanto” didn’t have anything to do organizing with the so-called First Thanksgiving.
Reminds me of how the Bolsheviks used to claim they’d invented the light bulb, and the steam engine, and radio, and the flush toilet, and penicillin, and the airplane, and aluminum, and-and-and.
Funny, I thought he was going to explain how the Puritans were seeking a haven where they would not be persecuted and potentially burned at the stake by Catholics.
back to the subject of Thanksgiving - some of us, particularly those who worship in liturgical churches, celebrate thanksgiving day every Sunday when they go forward to receive the Eucharist - the Great Thanksgiving.
LOL “Catholic” because he was a slave in Spain.