![]() ![]() Stay tuned for more Columbus Day coverage from The Tablet HERE and Currents News on NETTV.NY Tags: Archdiocese of New York, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Cardinal Timothy M. and included dozens of marching bands and floats from over 100 groups, including the Diocese of Brooklyn. This year’s parade stepped off at 11:30 a.m. The 2021 Grand Marshal, Duck Pond Associates Chairman Michael Pascucci, led the annual parade on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The 77th annual Columbus Day parade marked the continuation of Italian-American heritage and culture month, which began Oct. ![]() This is the first year that New York City is recognizing the day as Italian-American Heritage Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day. So we thank God for him and we thank God for Italian culture, the magnificent contribution of the Italians to the fabric of American life, and if I might say so, to the Catholic family.” “The dare and the dream and that he was an agent of Jesus in bringing the faith to the new world. “You know why we gather, we gather to thank God for the bravery of Christopher Columbus,” Cardinal Dolan said. Patrick’s Cathedral, the float makes its way around Manhattan. Today’s #ColumbusDay2021 parade after Mass at St. ![]() Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday morning.Ĭardinal Dolan opened the Mass speaking in Italian while celebrating alongside dozens of fellow bishops and priests, including Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Msgrs. Columbus Day 2021 began with a bilingual Mass at St. At each turn, at each point in time, the explorer has come to embody said group’s new construction of ideals, values, and identity.MANHATTAN - After last year’s virtual Columbus Day observance, this year’s event returned as an in-person celebration of faith and Italian-American heritage in New York City. The innate ambiguity of the Columbus archetype, a sort of alchemical palimpsest, has allowed it to be adopted and adapted by groups with vastly different socio-political interests in young post-colonialist nations of the Western hemisphere. ![]() In the course of Western history, Columbus’ achievements have transcended the borders of the Spanish Catholic Empire and its legacy has morphed him into an individual with a compound identity that comprises polar opposite incarnations he has been depicted as “one of the best and purest men of a period of ferocity and demoralization” (Ponce de Leon), as the instrument of God’s will, as well as a champion for perseverance, heroism and human progress, while simultaneously representing one of Colonization’s greatest tools of oppression-a pirate, a thief, an enslaver. Yet, unlike many others, he has come to embody a multiplicity of characters and values that are constantly shifting, being appropriated and raged against. If nothing else, like many historical figures before him, Christopher Columbus is shrouded by a veil of confusion, inaccuracy, and imaged ideals. “Que en postrer viaje llegan ante el altar mayor de la catedral de La Habana a dar reposo a los huesos que hasta entonces peregrinaron.” “May on their last trip they arrive before the main altar of the cathedral of Havana to give rest to the bones that until then pilgrimmed.” Additionally, the proclamation that he was the first European explorer to have landed on American soil is refuted by Nordic records dating to a century prior to his arrival. Indeed, no reliable documentation has been found that would illuminate Columbus’ life before he entered into the service of the Spanish Court, more than a dozen places have claimed his origins, and his remains were moved ad nauseam between Europe and the Americas. His alleged tomb rests on the shoulders of four allegorical figures representing the four kingdoms of Spain during Columbus’ life: Castilla, Aragon, Navarra and Leon. In the city of Sevilla, Spain, a monument to Christopher Columbus that may contain his remains or that of his brother is encompassed by the UNESCO World Heritage Site–the Seville Cathedral. To this day, historians vehemently disagree regarding fundamental periods of the explorer’s life, the exact date and place of his birth as well that of his death, and the location of his remains. The discovery of the American Continent, the New World, as well as the life of its discoverer are controversial episodes in the annals of the history of the West. More than five hundred years have elapsed since the fateful morning of October the 12 th 1492 when the Genoese sailor, Christopher Columbus, landed for the first time on American soil at the Antilles Archipelago in the Bahamas. The Life of Columbus in Pictures: The farewell to Cadiz The first sight of land In his old age Honor at last”. ![]()
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