Americans are preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
In September 1620, a group of 102 English Puritans set off on an Italian ship which was renamed the "Mayflower".
These Puritans were the Pilgrims.
They departed from the English city of Plymouth as a result of the restrictive measures during the reign of King James I of England (19 June 1566-27 March 1525).
He leaned identification between Crown and the Anglican Church, persecuting minorities.
Harsher measures against Catholics (especially after the Gunpowder Plot that was in 1605) but he was much harder with the Puritans.
Puritans were a movement that arose in the Anglican Church and who refused "via media", ie the balance between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Puritans wanted a Church without bishops and vestments and more like the Calvinist Churches in Switzerland and Scotland.
King James I countered that this theory was seen as against his own authority.
So, September 6, 1620 these Puritans left to form a new colony.
After a hard crossing, which killed one passenger and a crew member, the Pilgrims arrived in the current American state of Massachusetts.
It was 21 December 1620.
Puritans came into contact with local people, the American Indians.
The latter taught them to cultivate maize.
In October 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated the harvest with the indigenous.
This was the first Thanksgiving.
Now, what these Puritans did went far beyond the pursuit of their freedom.
Colonies in the American lands also became a place of refuge for others.
I think, for example, Royalists, Anglicans and Catholics fled from England during the Puritan tyranny of Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599-3 September 1658).
I also think the Irish fled Ireland for the persecution of Catholics and to find better conditions.
Thus were born the United States of America.
The Member States have still Christian values, even in a secular context, and defend their freedom to the hilt.
They did not know the horrors of Nazism and Fascism and Communism we met we Europeans and Italians.
Americans will not forget this and I wish them a happy Thanksgiving.
Who is allowed to say that the American people is a nation of criminals should rinse his mouth and become better informed.
I do not think that the US has never done lager or gulag.
In September 1620, a group of 102 English Puritans set off on an Italian ship which was renamed the "Mayflower".
These Puritans were the Pilgrims.
They departed from the English city of Plymouth as a result of the restrictive measures during the reign of King James I of England (19 June 1566-27 March 1525).
He leaned identification between Crown and the Anglican Church, persecuting minorities.
Harsher measures against Catholics (especially after the Gunpowder Plot that was in 1605) but he was much harder with the Puritans.
Puritans were a movement that arose in the Anglican Church and who refused "via media", ie the balance between Catholicism and Protestantism.
Puritans wanted a Church without bishops and vestments and more like the Calvinist Churches in Switzerland and Scotland.
King James I countered that this theory was seen as against his own authority.
So, September 6, 1620 these Puritans left to form a new colony.
After a hard crossing, which killed one passenger and a crew member, the Pilgrims arrived in the current American state of Massachusetts.
It was 21 December 1620.
Puritans came into contact with local people, the American Indians.
The latter taught them to cultivate maize.
In October 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated the harvest with the indigenous.
This was the first Thanksgiving.
Now, what these Puritans did went far beyond the pursuit of their freedom.
Colonies in the American lands also became a place of refuge for others.
I think, for example, Royalists, Anglicans and Catholics fled from England during the Puritan tyranny of Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599-3 September 1658).
I also think the Irish fled Ireland for the persecution of Catholics and to find better conditions.
Thus were born the United States of America.
The Member States have still Christian values, even in a secular context, and defend their freedom to the hilt.
They did not know the horrors of Nazism and Fascism and Communism we met we Europeans and Italians.
Americans will not forget this and I wish them a happy Thanksgiving.
Who is allowed to say that the American people is a nation of criminals should rinse his mouth and become better informed.
I do not think that the US has never done lager or gulag.
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