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Columbus attended Mass daily, named the New World for Christ, and died a Third Order Franciscan.
The war on his memory didn't begin with historians — it began with 19th-century nativists who couldn't stand Catholic immigrants claiming an American hero.
The Knights of Columbus (of which I am a proud member) took his name as a rebuke to that bigotry.
The hatred was never about 1492. It was about Rome.
Happy Columbus Day! May we forever honor his memory!