Colorado passes bill for Cabrini Day to replace Columbus Day

UPI ^ | March 10, 2020 | By Sommer Brokaw

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Colorado lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday to replace Columbus Day with a new state holiday honoring Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini on the first Monday in October.

Cabrini Day is believed to be the first paid state holiday to recognize a woman anywhere in the country, the Denver Post reported. It now needs the governor's signature to become law, and he is not expected to oppose it.

Honoring Cabrini, an Italian American and patron saint of immigrants, was a compromise with Italian Americans, who take pride in the Italian explorer, lead bill sponsor Adrienne Benavidez said.

Benavidez has been trying for years to abolish Columbus Day and calls it "a festering sore."

"The continuation of a racist holiday hurts people, and this says that we as a state no longer want to be party to that," she said.

Many House and Senate Republicans said the bill was a rewrite of history and all of them opposed the bill.

Cabrini came to Colorado in 1902 and opened the Queen of Heaven Orphanage for girls in north Denver a few years later. In 1909, she was naturalized as a U.S. citizen and she negotiated the purchase of a rural property to be used as a summer camp for girls at the orphanage.

"The land upon which Cabrini established her orphanage and camp is the traditional territory and homeland to the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute indigenous nations," the bill's text read. "Those indigenous peoples, and all indigenous peoples, have a special, sacred relationship with water, similar to that of Cabrini."

Throughout the United States and South and Central America, Cabrini founded 67 institutions, including schools, hospitals and orphanages, in her lifetime.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Adrienne Benavidez

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini

[xkaydet65]

Mother Cabrini is deserved of this honor, but I would like to ask Ms. Benavidez if she will next demand the that Colombia change its name? Sounds like she would want that.

[Liz]

Colorado pol Adrienne Benavidez has been trying for years to abolish Columbus Day and calls it "a festering sore."

"Not as festering as you are, sweetheart."

<><> Is this one even a US citizen?

<><> How many organizations does she belong to that advocate the overthrow of the US govt?

[bagman]

Mother Cabrini’s impact on world history is at least as great as Columbus’s. Why would anyone not support this change?

[PGalt]

HISTORY RE-WRITES in progress. It’s so progressive. Hey...chain up Abe and pull him out of the memorial. He looks too comfy in that chair. It can be re-purposed for someone more needy.

[Stravinsky]

And their revolution continues

[pepsi_junkie]

Italians aren't owed a national holiday. Nobody else gets one. Columbus day wasn't meant to be 'Italian Day'. It was meant to celebrate the discovery of America, and ultimately the establishment of what would eventually lead to the USA. If they kill Columbus day I'm not interested in converting it into a national holiday celebrating immigrants just because the woman, who almost nobody has heard of, is Italian.

For the record, I support keeping Columbus day and have no issues with Italians taking it as an opportunity to express national pride. I'm not a fan of "Mother Cabrini Day"

[Phil DiBasquette]

Sure, kid *rolls eyes*

Columbia Records, Pictures, et al
A synonym for America itself

Next Cabrini Day will be called a religious holiday
that other sects, cults or otherwise can’t abide

[PGalt]

First they invade, then they take over your culture, then they re-write. I’m not sure about that exact order. America: It lasted until it didn’t.

Colonialists, right Barry?

[PGalt]

“And their revolution continues”

EXACTLY

[1Old Pro]

Burn the books

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I thought one of the major problems with Columbus was that his voyage and discovery set off the European colonization of the Americas. You know: we’re on stolen land. How does having a holiday in honor of an Italian woman who is the patron saint of immigrants get at the root problem? More immigrants means more foreign feet standing on stolen land.

BTW —I have no problem with honoring Mother Cabrini. How and why they are making this change just doesn’t seem logical.

[Bishop_Malachi]

Sarcasm tag?

[mylife]

Sacred relationship with water?

[mylife]

Columbus knew nothing of water /s

[G Larry]

Because it denigrates Columbus based on fraudulent charges!!!!

Give Mother Cabrini her own day.

[Dilbert San Diego]

How can atheistic liberal types be happy with this? Mother Cabrini was a nun. How can they in good conscience honor a nun?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Firewater.

[Leep]

We celebrate Columbus for his explorations? He opened up trade... He didn’t actually discover America...he didn’t set up a colony in what is now main land U.S.A.
Then there’s that whole syphilis thing.

[Leep]

It won’t be any different than the left’s fake admiration for Mother Teresa or the Amish.