“Some Sections Written and Others Compiled by Pauly Fongemie: October 12 marks the 515th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World on the same day in 1492, over a century before the Protestant Puritans. In fact many of the oldest cities, including the oldest city, and mapped rivers of America are named after Saints or given their names by both Spanish and French Catholic missionaries. A few examples: St. Augustine, Florida mentioned above; San Antonio, Texas; San Francisco, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, and Santa Rosa, California. America was intended to be a Catholic country but the Protestants who came after and dominated politically the English colonies, as opposed to the rest of the territories, wanted a Protestant country along the lines of the “Enlightenment”, free of the influence of the Catholic Church and the Papacy and monarchy. They were willing to engage in violence to do so, to instigate and provoke the English infantry in order to have a pretext. Sure, they …More
