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Friday, June 28, 2013

You Don't Have to Go Home, But You Can't Stay Here

Josh Bowman over at Catholic Vote despairs and looks for a place for Catholics to escape. His top pick? St. Pierre and Miquelon. He points out that there's "a population of about 6,000 of which over 99% are Catholic. The only territory in the world that is more Catholic is the Vatican, but of course you must be a cleric or a Swiss guard to claim Vatican citizenship"

 
It sounds like an interesting place. Off the coast of Newfoundland, it is the last of New France still under the control of France. Discovered by the Portugese  João Álvares Fagundes, he called them "Islands of 11, 000 Virgins". because he arrived on the feast day of St. Ursula.
  
Meister von St. Laurenz in Köln     
 Ursula was martyred by the Huns in 238, 283, 383, 451, or640 along with what is believed to have been 11 other virgins. Somewhere along the line, the 11 became 11,000.

The runner up location is Wallis and Futuna, another French island collective. 






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