Happy Thanksgiving Day, American friends!

Dear friends,


in November 1623, William Bredford, the Governor of the colony founded by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts, issued this order:


" You all Pilgrims, with your wives and your children, gather the House of Assemblies, on the hill ... there to listen to the pastor and render thanks to Almighty God for all His blessings. "

In 1620, a group of Puritans British fled from England aboard the Mayflower.
The Puritan Church was the church founded by Pastor John Robinson (1576-1625), an Anglican priest who was suspended from his ministry to the very radical ideas.
During the time of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), the Anglican Church took its final appearance of a Reformed Church in doctrine, independent of Rome but with organization and with many external characters similar to those of the Catholic Church.
A part of the Protestants did not accept this compromise and formed a Calvinist Church, the Puritan Church.
With King James I (1566-1625) Puritans were persecuted and fled to Holland.
The same Robinson, who came in contact with other religious dissidents, such as William Brewster, John Smith (founder of Baptist church) and William Bredford, took refuge in Leiden.
He was among those who planned the escape of the Puritans on the Mayflower, a ship that had belonged to the family of Florence Guicciardini.
The boat went as a symbol the lily, the symbol of Florence.
In September 1620, these Puritans traveled to the Americas and landed in the current Massachusetts on November 11 of the same year.
On 11 December 1620, they founded Plymouth.
In October 1621, the settlers celebrated the first harvest together with the natives helped them.
Thus was born on Thanksgiving Day, which was institutionalized in 1623, every fourth Thursday of November.
In Canada there is a Thanksgiving Day, every second Monday in October.
This festival has a strong Christian.
After all, as the settlers of the XVI thanked God for the harvest, so Americans today thank God for their nation.
God bless America, a nation that is not forgotten him, unlike what is making this Europe that, as said Pope Francis is a "grandmother who needs a soul" and what I call an "old with a little of dementia."
Sincerely.