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Lincoln’s Proclamation of Thanksgiving
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Mark Herringshaw
Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor had been lobbying for an official national “Thanksgiving Day Holiday” for 15 years. Her requests were finally honored after she wrote to Abraham Lincoln on September 28, 1863, asking him to have the “day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival.” She said, “You…
Gettysburg as Lincoln’s Conversion to Faith
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Mark Herringshaw
On November 19, 1863 (147 years ago today) Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address, one of the most profound political statements in all of human history. “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.…
Benedict “all but” Endorses the Shroud of Turin
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Mark Herringshaw
Pope Benedict XVI came close to an outright endorsement of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin on Sunday. Speaking in Turin, the Italian city where the relic is kept he called the cloth that many believe is Christ’s burial shroud an icon “written with the blood.” Benedict didn’t address the scientific questions and controversies…
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