ON Thursday in USA _Thanksgiving, the last Thursday in November

This feast is

Only iN nORTH aMERICA

Only iN nORTH aMERICA

Only iN nORTH aMERICA

Only iN nORTH aMERICA

T H A N K S G I V I N G 

One uniquely American Festivity:

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving USA                                                            Thanksgiving in Canada 

Original Significance:

 Thankful for God's bounty(abundanza, bonanza)  ,Thank God (for?)

 Date of celebration:

 4th Thursday in November                                              2nd Monday in October Weekend:
 Four day weekend (Thursday - Sunday)                  Three day weekend (Saturday - Monday)


What do they do ?

 a gigantic  meal  with ALL the family

It's a bigger family celebration than Christmas

A family reunion

ALL Americans  go  home at thanksgiving .

Compare  Europeans at Christmas!

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the menu 

note :  traditional  INGREDIENTS from the new world:
turkey, mashed potato, pumpkin pie 

The origins : 

Thanksgiving America, Puritans,UK and USA, and Pilgrim fathers

 The " Pilgrim Fathers",1621, were(=eran) English Puritans"

The first English colony in America, Jamestown, Virginia : not Puritan! 

But 
Americans  consider  Puritans 
their ancestors .
(The English Puritan colonists arrived (=llegaron) in 1620 ,later than the Jamestown , Virginia , colony.  
125 years  later  than Columbus! .
 In the  North, 
In  Massachusetts, New England  USA) .


The first Thanksgiving:
The Autumn of their first harvest in the new world .
They celebrated with the local Indians 


From this 1621 

 to this Nowadays :

They call those PURITAN colonists 
 the PILGRIM FATHERS!(=padres peregrinos)

But
  why? .

Let's Consider:

http://endtimepilgrim.org/puritans10.htmhttp://endtimepilgrim.org/puritans10.htm

Who and where  are these people?

In fact ,this is USA today ,
 and these are a type  of   CATHOLICS: 
 "plain Catholics"(press for link)

Just look at this plain catholic kitchen ,(press for link)

Today's USA has 
small  religious  groups 
who , 
deliberately, 
live   like their ancestors , 
on farms  in the country,
  with

No phones, No TV, no radios, no cars, ...

Homemade (= hecho a mano) clothes,homemade

 houses, homemade furniture.....

  (and many home-made children, too!)

People don't know about the   plain Catholics



The(protestant) Hutterites are better known

AND, Very famous:
The(different protestant) AMISH: 
 (Included in several films)

Amish classroom

............All these groups  still(=todavia, aun) LIVE

in the ASCETIC way of the Puritan "Pilgrim Fathers" 

independant
hard-working
self-reliant 

But they- 

plain Catholics, Hutterites, and Amish - are all

pacific, !

  early 17th century :

The English Puritans, 
and this includes the American "Pilgrim Fathers" , 
were(=eran) ascetics , etc 
but they were NOT pacifists.      

   So , who were the Puritans ?

Complicated English:(letra pequeña solo para alumnos "super")

In the 16th century, in England ,

1530s: King  Henry VIII started English protestantism 

 

• Divorced his wife, Catherine of Aragon
• Broke with Rome
• Imposed his own, invented, church on the English and on the Welsh (and soon , on the Irish) by armed force
• Shut down ALL the monasteries and took all their land and buildings, in the cities and in the countryside
• Closed and shut down all the little and not-so-little chapels that were not Parish churches  on very valuable sites in the cities, and got a lot of money
• Killed about 100,000 people, mostly Catholics, who opposed any or all of this  this.(The most famous are St Thomas More, his chancellor, and St John Fisher, a bishop of part of London , and his mother's confessor.)
• Prohibited numerous feasts, but not all.
• Link to my post on Halloween  for some more details 

But one group of protestants especially 
were
 NOT satisfied 
with the Protestantism of the King's  "CHURCH OF ENGLAND":
the Puritans.

They wanted to "purify" the church of England and the Christian religion.
AND manage everything!

A small group of Puritans
 obtained the King's permission to start a colony in America.

These were the "Pilgrim fathers", the "MAYFLOWER" colonists. 

1620

(NB Los Españoles ya cruzaban el Pacifico)

Many tens of thousands
tens of thousands
tens of thousands
tens of thousands
tens of thousands
 .............of other English Puritans 



followed 
followed 
followed 
followed 
followed (=seguian)
                       them 
                       across the Atlantic 
.................................to New England .


Usually: All the family : grandparents to grandchildren! 
Dates of Puritan colonies in New England:  

In America from 1620.......

Nowadays Puritans do not exist in the UK or USA

Recapitulating: About  1621:

 The pilgrim fathers, then ,

 and the first thanksgiving in Plymouth,Massachussetts ,  New England, America 

With the local Indians, 

after the first harvest, 

eating local, not European foods  :

The Pilgrim fathers, Puritans from England , with  the Indians at the beginning

From" mount's journal" published London 1622:, press for link

But 


una generacion despues
despues de la muerte del cacique Indio amigo:

Left :Christmas was prohibited,

from very small beginnings 

Puritan "New England "  in America grew(=crecia) and grew and grew and grew and grew

and prospered 

Like ALL the English colonies in America .

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Puritan "New England "  in America grew 
and prospered 

But

In England

Back across the Atlantic

 in England 

from 1642 : a Civil War.

 Monarchists and Parliamentarians 

Puritans : first  only a part of the Parliamentary side ,
 but 

Puritans : THE WINNERS!

Boss Puritan: General Cromwell

Puritans took over

• the parliamentary army in the civil war, 
• then the government, 
• and everything in the state
• all religion included 
• under their leader, the military dictator OLIVER Cromwell 

AND

• Prohibited the celebration of Christmas
• prohibited .... theatre, fun, you name it, you couldn't do it.
• Committed genoicide in Ireland
• and a long etc.

Many American puritans crossed the Atlantic to Britain 

                                to help Cromwell fight the war and  govern Britain...

Cromwell,Puritan, brilliant General. Winner of the civil War, then Dictator.

Cromwell's puritan army comitting genoicide against Irish catholics.

Puritan Government in England was military and totalitarian

Using children against their parents.Stalin copied this, then  Hitler..

A puritan government  militia  house search

When Oliver Cromwell died, Puritans were so discredited in Great Britain that they left or changed

But NOT so in AMERICA
Very many American PROTESTANTS follow Cromwell's religious laws to this day (the "westminster statutes)

American puritans disappeared , and became presbyterians, baptists , congregationalists, and even unitarians ( Like Obama's grandparents and their ancestors.)
and thousands of other things!

When Cromwell died(=murio)  English puritans "evaporated"

Notes

so from this

to this:

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TOM AND JERRY AT THANKSGIVING


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