Posted on 04/26/2014 4:54:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Just a humble message.
The state was officially named after Henrietta Marie, wife of King Charles II but I understand your point.
Can you imagine the reaction of a college official rejected somebody because of his Muslim faith?
That is the official claim but why not Henriettaland then which was the named she used?
From ncregister.com:
Maryland has a rich Catholic history. In 1629, George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, asked King Charles I, a Protestant, for a charter to establish the province of Maryland as a haven for Catholics in the New World.
Calvert died in April 1632, but the Maryland Colony charter was granted to his son, Cecil, on June 20, 1632. Many scholars believe Maryland was named after the Virgin Mary. In 1634, the first settlers arrived, establishing the first capitol of St. Mary’s City.
Fire the admnistrators tantalizing him with this question, with no apology forthcoming. Are they employees of the local, state, or federal government? Exemplary discipline is in order.
It is also the state in which the Toleration Act w3as put into effect before the Declaration Of Independence or the Bill of Rights was written, IIRC.
I remember in College working on a paper on Catholicism in Colonial America and coming across a reference that the Mary in Maryland was officially for Henrietta Marie. My prof made the same comment that you did, why didn’t they name the colony Henriettaland.
No college admission board is that stupid.
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