SAINT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?

Italian America | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

Did you know that at one time a movement was launched to canonize Christopher Columbus?

In 1882, ten years before the 400th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage to the New World, a group of Irish Catholics in New Haven, Connecticut, founded the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's fraternal organization.

Its mission was to assist the needy and to boost Catholics' pride in their religion, which was frequently challenged in the anti-Catholic climate of late 19th century America. They named their organization after Christopher Columbus because he was Catholic and discovered the Americas.

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