{"id":9226,"date":"2017-11-21T09:47:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:54:39","slug":"saint-squanto-catholic-thanksgiving-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/saint-squanto-catholic-thanksgiving-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Squanto? A Catholic Thanksgiving hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lWSc4DPlkHo[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9228\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/saint-squanto-catholic-thanksgiving-hero\/squantoteaching\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9228\" src=\"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Squantoteaching-300x258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Squantoteaching-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/satodayscatholic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Squantoteaching.png 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did you know that Squanto, the Native American hero who saved the pilgrims from starvation on their first Thanksgiving, was a Catholic?<\/p>\n<p>Neither did I, until I watched\u00a0Dr. Taylor Marshall lay out the facts in a Youtube video.<\/p>\n<p>Squanto was enslaved by the English \u2013 by John Smith, so be exact. You remember\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/img4.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20120708222320\/disney\/images\/d\/d0\/John_Smith_46.PNG\">John Smith, from Pocahontas<\/a>? Yeah, he\u2019s not the innocent blonde-haired blue-eyed boy Disney made him out to be. Smith actually intended to sell Squanto with a group of Native Americans in the slave trade, but they were freed by Spanish Franciscans.<\/p>\n<p>Squanto was soon baptized and catechized in the Catholic faith, and went to England to work in the shipyards where he learned English, which allowed him to communicate to the (almost certainly anti-Catholic) Puritan pilgrims for the first Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Taylor Marshall has five other fascinating Catholic Thanksgiving facts on his site, check them out at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/taylormarshall.com\/2013\/11\/6-interesting-catholic-thanksgiving.html\">http:\/\/taylormarshall.com\/2013\/11\/6-interesting-catholic-thanksgiving.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lWSc4DPlkHo[\/embedyt] &nbsp; Did you know that Squanto, the Native American hero who saved the pilgrims from starvation on their first Thanksgiving, was a Catholic? Neither did I, until I watched\u00a0Dr. Taylor Marshall lay out the facts in a Youtube video. Squanto was enslaved by the English \u2013 by John Smith, so be exact. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[350,748,747,745],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saint Squanto? 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