The patron saint of the U.S.A. is Mary, the Mother of Jesus, under her title, "Immaculate Conception." That is why the National Shrine (in Washington, D.C.) is the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the largest Catholic church in the nation.
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In 1792, John Carroll, the bishop of Baltimore and America's first Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated the newly-created United States under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of The Immaculate Conception. In 1847, Pope Pius IX formalized Carroll's acclamation, proclaiming the
Immaculate Conception as the Patroness of the United States. In
subsequent years, priests imagined an elaborate shrine in honor of their
country's patroness. Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan, the fourth rector of the Catholic University of America proposed the construction of a national shrine to
commemorate the Immaculate Conception in the country's capital. Bishop Shahan
took his appeal to Pope Pius X on August 15, 1913. Shahan received
the pope's enthusiastic support and his personal contribution of $400. Shahan
returned to the United States and persuaded the Board of Trustees of the
Catholic University of America to donate land at the southwest corner of the
campus for his shrine.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_the_National_Shrine_of_the_Immaculate_Conception
Just thought I would mention these little knonw facts. This information will come in handy real soon. Welcome to the new and improved New World Order (aka Old World Order in the new world with a Global emphasis), it's been centuries in the making.
We've finally come home to mama!How do you like your masses, in English or Latin? One or two lumps?
Now, let's go solve the world's problems; Give until it hurts! We are so blessed!
We're more than one billion strong!
